Word: menachem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...images still flash sharply through the mind: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stepping from his gold-and-white 707 upon Israeli soil; Israeli Premier Menachem Begin greeting him at the Knesset in Jerusalem; Sadat and Golda Meir exchanging good-humored banter; Begin's airport farewell to Sadat amid dreams of peace...
Relations between Jerusalem and Washington hit a new low last week. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin lashed out at the Carter Ad ministration, and particularly at Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, for "taking sides" against Israel in criticizing the existence of Israeli settlements in the Sinai. Two days later the Carter Administration announced its long awaited decision to permit the sale of nearly $3 billion worth of advanced jet aircraft to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as $1.9 billion worth of planes to Israel. The Israelis protested loudly, especially about the sale to the Saudis. But neither Washington nor Jerusalem...
American officials, both in Washington and along the shuttle route, privately describe their task as a holding action, a way of buying time while a discouraged Anwar Sadat and a defiant Menachem Begin learn to engage in the pragmatic diplomacy that last year's euphoric summitry made possible...
...last count there were about 300 Jewish organizations in America-and almost as many points of view, or at least shadings, among American Jews as to what, precisely, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin should be doing to bring about a Middle East settlement. Consensus on anything is hard to come by, except for the obvious fundamental that Israel has the right to exist as an independent Jewish state in peace with its Arab neighbors. On that, virtually all Jews feel strongly and emotionally...
Though Israel's press and TV are routinely subject to military censorship, the Hirbet Hiza incident marked the first time a fictional work had been suppressed for political reasons. Premier Menachem Begin defended Hammer's decision, but Author Smilansky was irate. "I didn't write this story as a conflict between Jews and Arabs," he insisted. "I wrote this as a man who was hurt by what he saw. This story is about Israel, it's about Viet Nam, it's about any place where someone is suddenly caught in war. Instead of covering...