Word: menachem
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...occurred, moreover, at a time of extreme anxiety in the region. Plagued with doubts about the wisdom of its action, Israel was preparing to withdraw from the final third of the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, while Egypt waited anxiously to see if the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem...
...other areas of foreign policy, the U.S. also appears to be increasingly on the defensive. American officials fear that after Israel completes its pullout from the Sinai on April 25-or even before-Prime Minister Menachem Begin will order the long-expected military action against Palestinian forces in Lebanon. Washington seems to have no ideas on how to stop him. China threatens increasingly loudly to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration goes through with a $60 million arms sale to Taiwan. Said one State Department official: "We get a ding a day from the Chinese." At week...
...diplomatic fallout from the Goodman incident is yet to be measured. The Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been planning to invade Lebanon again. But Goodman's attack makes Begin vulnerable to charges that Israel is irresponsible and militaristic, and that invasion may be called off. Moreover, the mosque slayings ironically increase pressure on Israel to withdraw from the Sinai by April 25--something the Israelis were beginning to hesitate about. Here again, the Israelis are on the defensive and must demonstrate their good faith internationally...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin appeared to have weathered a parliamentary crisis that had broken out the week before. His Likud coalition, sustained by a mere one-vote majority in the 120-member Knesset, had been whiplashed by the two explosive issues confronting Israel at the moment: the forthcoming withdrawal from the Sinai and the government's repressive treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago, the Begin government barely survived a no-confidence motion that ended in a 58-58 tie vote. But for a budget vote last week, Begin gained the tacit support...
...this exuberant rebirth is, in a strict sense, illegal. Not a single nation in the world recognizes the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. And when the Knesset voted in 1980 that a reunited Jerusalem was, in the words of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, "the eternal capital of our country, our people, our faith, our civilization," the United Nations promptly voted that it was no such thing. Hence the departure, under strong Arab pressure, of the Dutch diplomats...