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Israeli citizens, and even once-fiercely loyal soldiers like Yitzchak, are losing some of their legendary fervor for national goals. Many, like the young Jewish soldier, have misgivings about what they see as the unduly militaristic policies of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, particularly the recently-concluded war in Lebanon against the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...panic grew as two bombs exploded the following day, one targeted at a Jewish-run business, the other at the Iraqi embassy. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin called on French Jews to "protect yourselves if your government cannot." The situation was getting out of hand...
Reagan's plan could take years of patient diplomacy and negotiation to bring to fruition, if in fact that can be accomplished at all. Prime Minister Menachem Begin denounced the plan as "an affront to Israel"; in an emergency session his Cabinet unanimously agreed that "on the basis of these proposals, Israel will not enter into any negotiations with any party whatsoever." U.S. officials expected that initial negative reaction; they hope that Arab interest in the plan as the basis for negotiations, and internal debate within Israel will eventually soften Begin's hard-line stand. There was little...
...also the root of its weakness: the artful use of constructive ambiguity allowed each signatory to proclaim agreement while holding different interpretations of what the words really mean. In some instances, those diverging views are spelled out in letters that accompany the text signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter on Sept. 17, 1978. For example, Sadat and Carter, in separate letters, stated their views that predominantly Arab East Jerusalem is part of the West Bank...
Israel's invasion of Lebanon has evoked fears that Israeli troops have come to stay, just as they did in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel has occupied since 1967. The Lebanese note that although Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared shortly after the invasion of Lebanon last June that Israel did not want any Lebanese territory, Jerusalem has insisted that a 25-mile-wide strip inside the Lebanese border be subject to international guarantees under a multinational force. To complicate matters, the Israelis have said that they will not leave until the estimated 30,000 Syrian...