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...people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom," said Reagan, turning to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "Let us remember that whether we be Christian or Jew or Muslim, we are all children of Abraham, all children of the same God." But now, Reagan warned, "forces of aggression, lawlessness and tyranny . . . seek to undo the work of generations of our people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly...
While Reagan's insistence on pushing now for the sale of AW ACS and other air weaponry to Saudi Arabia promises to complicate life on Capitol Hill, other foreign policy issues are crying for his attention. Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin will arrive this week for a get-acquainted visit with Reagan at the White House. Begin will not only argue against the AWACS deal but will also urge Reagan to throw the prestige of the U.S. into fulfillment of the Camp David accords by sending a high-level envoy to the talks on autonomy...
Thus ended, on a cautiously encouraging note, the eleventh meeting in the past four years between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. The mood was more somber than at most of the previous encounters: there were no exaggerated compliments, no excessive expressions of confidence, no crowds of cheering Egyptians to greet the visitors from Israel. But the two-day meeting in Alexandria did serve to reduce the tensions that had been building over the past three months. And it produced one accomplishment: a commitment by the two men to resume the long-stalled talks...
...floor as he advances. Both the sobriquet and the gait are appropriate, for Israel's new Defense Minister, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, whose responsibilities include administration of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, is already exerting more political weight than all his colleagues combined in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's four-week-old Cabinet...
...graves at the government-approved dig. Leading the protest were members of Netorei Karta (Guardians of the City), a fundamentalist sect that refuses to accept the legitimacy of the Israeli state, and representatives of Agudat Israel (Union of Israel), an ultra-Orthodox religious party that joined Prime Minister Menachem Begin's new government a month...