Word: menachem
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...find the present situation in Lebanon [July 26] totally incomprehensible. It strikes me as bizarre to kill and wound countless numbers of women and children in order to get the 6,000 terrorists safely loaded on a bus bound for Syria or parts unknown. I suspect that if Menachem Begin were a surgeon, he'd kill the patient and save the cancer...
...statement it issued describing the 20-minute meeting. "The world can no longer accept a situation of constantly escalating violence." Reagan's advisers calculated that private pressure, rather than public prodding, would be more effective (and less likely to backfire) in dealing with volatile Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...Habib had yet to wrap up the how and the when, and negotiations were going on under the gun, literally. Prime Minister Menachem Begin repeated his government's threats that Israel would mount an all-out assault on the Lebanese capital to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization if a way could not be found for the P.L.O. to leave peacefully. At the same time, in an obvious attempt to increase the pressure on the P.L.O., Israeli forces bombarded the beleaguered city and its southern suburbs for seven straight days before Habib managed to arrange still another...
...they had seen in Tyre and Sidon was the worst that they had ever observed in any war area, only to have to admit they had never seen any other war areas. The group proved to be totally out of its depth too when meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who chided his visitors schoolmarmishly for being "taken in" by Arafat. Begin asked McCloskey to point to the West Bank on an unmarked map. The nonplused Californian was unable to do so. Nor did McCloskey improve his standing in Israeli eyes when, in a CBS-TV interview after...
...Gaza Strip. Under heavy pressure from Arabs and some Europeans, the U.S. is considering the possibility of negotiating directly with the P.L.O., in return for an open declaration by the P.L.O. that it recognizes Israel's right to exist as a state. The hope: that Prime Minister Menachem Begin might then be convinced that a P.L.O. no longer dedicated to Israel's destruction should be brought into negotiations that look toward some form of self-determination for the Palestinians...