Word: menachem
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...mild and ineffectual rebukes to Israel-about the bombing of both the Iraqi nuclear reactor and Beirut last summer and the de facto annexation of the Golan Heights-has angered moderate Arabs far more than U.S. arms sales have soothed them. Even some American officials fear that Prime Minister Menachem Begin now believes the U.S. will do nothing to restrain Israeli actions, and that in consequence he may yet order a full-scale strike against the P.L.O. in Lebanon...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin has made clear his ultimate intention of annexing the disputed West Bank and Gaza strip. Driven by a belief in his nation's Biblical claim to the territories, Begin ignores those who argue that security will never be achieved unless the Palestinian desires for self-determination endorsed at Camp David become reality. On the other side, the Palestinians' senseless refusal to recognize Israel and substitute diplomacy for terrorism creates an additional obstacle--one buttressed by the obstinance of nations such as Jordan and Syria, themselves responsible for more Palestinian civilian dislocation and carnage than...
...current struggle in the Middle East is one between possibilists and impossibilists the tragedy lies in the incentive to intransigence on each actor's part. Those who focus on Israel's stubbornness encourage Israel isolation and buttress Menachem Begin's approach by strengthening Israel's adversaries. The vicious rejectionist cycle that ensues holds out little hope for an end to persistent conflict through compromise...
...Assad's adventurism in Lebanon. As minority ruler, he is under siege from his Moslem opponents domestically. When he ventures into Lebanon to divert attention from his problems at home, an American mediator negotiates a cease-five which allows him to keep his missiles trained on Israel. When Menachem Begin ventures into Lebanon in pursuit of terrorists who oppose his state with every means at their disposal-partly to divert attention from the painful operations in the Sinai necessary for peace-he is accused of ignoring his American ally and of loving...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin immediately issued a statement expressing sorrow "over the terrible sacrilege and loss of life." And Israel's two chief rabbis proclaimed that Goodman had "cut himself off from the Jewish people...