Word: menachem
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...P.L.O.'s fixed positions and much of its long-range Soviet-built artillery had been eliminated from southern Lebanon. But the P.L.O. put up fierce resistance and remained an organized military force, confronting the Israelis in Sidon and Tyre while blocking their advance at Damur. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin flew by helicopter into 800-year-old Beaufort Castle, a stone-walled mountaintop fortress from which the P.L.O. had often directed fire at northern Israel...
...outcome, it will surely be remembered as his war: no other Middle East conflict had so unmistakably borne the stamp of one man. He had been spoiling for the fight against the Palestine Liberation Organization since he became Defense Minister last August. He had intensively lobbied Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Cabinet to approve it. He aggressively directed every logistical detail of it. And, in the end, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister of Israel...
...will be seeing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shortly after your return from Europe. The autonomy talks are stalled. Do you plan to ask Begin to change his policies regarding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and his insistence on meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Jerusalem...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had rarely seemed so cocky, though prudence might have suggested a different attitude. He was, after all, facing his 27th no-confidence motion since he came to office in 1977, and the seventh since he won re-election last June. But this time his chances of survival were far from certain: two members of his own Likud coalition had just defected to the Labor alignment. Still, as he wound up his 20-minute speech in the Knesset, Begin confidently asserted: "The government will not fall today." Then, bracing himself against the cane that...
...told friends that he believes Reagan could have utilized him as a negotiator because he is trusted by both sides. Carter has always feared an Islamic uprising in the West Bank, and the harsh occupation tactics of the Israelis trouble him. His book will be tough on Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the power of the Israeli lobby in this country. In the past, Carter has told intimates that he believes the Israelis do not want a second term for any U.S. President for fear that, free of electoral pressure, he might then turn on them...