Word: menachem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become better informed about the global problems that so deeply affect us all. Day after day, the group was able to question closely, and at length, a number of key figures who are trying to bring peace to their nations. Among the hosts of the traveling Americans: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith and Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere...
After the hours of arguing in the Cabinet Room at the White House last week, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin slowly started massaging the pectoral muscles on the left side of his chest. It was a nervous habit that betrayed the anxiety of a former heart-attack victim enduring new stress. In the wake of Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, Begin had gone to Washington to defend his belligerent policies, and he had found little support in the White House. At one point, in what Begin later called "difficult days," President Carter tried to summarize the state of disagreement...
When Israeli Premier Menachem Begin returned to Jerusalem at week's end following his grim mission to Washington, he found a nation that was visibly more troubled than the one he had left four days earlier. Israelis were despondent and nervous at the failure of the Begin-Carter talks, and uncertain what effect their Premier's intransigence might have had on the longstanding special relationship between their country...
Israeli Defense Chief Ezer Weizman, the Cabinet minister who greeted his returning boss Menachem Begin in Jerusalem with a widely publicized call for the formation of a "national peace government," has a well-deserved reputation for speaking his mind. So much so that when he was chief of operations for the Israeli forces in the late 1960s, he was told by Moshe Dayan, then Defense Minister, that he would never become chief of staff. "Too rash, naughty, and always shooting from the hip," said Dayan...
...When Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sit down at the White House to talk Middle East strategy this week, there will be an unseen third party at the table. It will not be the Palestinians-as much as they have complicated the peace talks-but the Jews of America. For 30 years the U.S. Jewish community has variously served as a voice of conscience, a vigorous lobby and a public educator for Israel's cause. Though there have been periods of war and crisis when it has raised its voice, usually it goes about its mission quietly and discreetly...