Word: menachem
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...spite of this unexpected distraction, Washington's main concern in the region was still the legacy of the fighting in Lebanon. In Israel, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin survived three no-confidence motions in the Knesset, all of them aimed at expressing the opposition's displeasure over the way in which the government had dealt with the recommendations of the independent commission charged with investigating the Beirut massacre of last September. In Lebanon, the fragile government of President Amin Gemayel accomplished the symbolic feat of replacing Christian militiamen on duty in Christian East Beirut with government...
...report on the Beirut massacre, and it proved to be a stinging indictment of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and several military officials, concluding that they shared an "indirect" responsibility for what happened in the Beirut camps. The report assigned only a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but it recommended that Sharon either resign or be dismissed. It was also highly critical of three top commanders and a military intelligence official who were involved in the Israeli occupation of West Beirut...
...Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin. In 1980, while he was serving as a right-wing legislator who had opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, Arens turned down the chance to become Ezer Weizman's successor as Defense Minister, apparently because he did not want to be in charge of the dismantling of Israeli settlements...
...remain deadlocked, and relations with the U.S. are as strained as they have ever been. Nor is it clear whether the mere transfer from one Cabinet post to another of Ariel Sharon is an appropriate response to the recommendations of a commission that was investigating a terrible crime. Presumably Menachem Begin has been somewhat weakened by the report and by the events of the past eight months. But so far he has managed to hold his government together...
...preoccupation with its domestic maelstrom has momentarily turned attention away from another topic that has been consuming the country's passions and energy: the ever growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib discovered for himself last week just how absorbed Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in his own troubles. When the peripatetic troubleshooter showed up in Israel to discuss a new U.S. plan for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, Begin found only 45 minutes for him. Said an Israeli official: "Nothing of substance came up at the meeting...