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Prime Minister Menachem Begin tells a cheering Israeli Parliament that he has decided to annex Northern Ireland, El Salvador and Poland. "We don't have troubles enough of our own," the grinning chief executive proclaims...
WHILE the rest of the world was watching the Polish crisis unfold, the Israeli government last month took a step that could also threaten world peace. By annexing the Golan Heights--the strategic high ground that Israel has occupied since its 1967 defeat of Syria--Prime Minister Menachem Begin helped undermine the codes of international cooperation and respect that are his nation's only long-run hope for stability...
...move was organized with all the boldness, secrecy and speed of an Israeli commando raid-and it had the same kind of impact. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, still recovering from a three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking...
...give its customary briefing afterward. Sharon pronounced himself pleased nonetheless. "The agreement is a very wide one," he declared. "It covers everything." But by the time he arrived back in Jerusalem, the quiet agreement had touched off an uproar in Israel that threatened the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. It also made many Israelis more unhappy than ever about their government's handling of relations with...
Jerusalem's reaction was prompt and predictable. At midweek, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin told U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis that he would ask his Cabinet to reject the participation of the Europeans as long as they supported a P.L.O. peace role. The 68-year-old Prime Minister's resolve was in no way weakened the next day when a fall in his home hospitalized him with a broken left thigh. It was expected that the Cabinet meeting discussing the subject would be held at his bedside in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...