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...statement was released Monday morning, after Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government proudly announced the bombing as a preemptive, defensive attack on a nuclear plant that, it insisted, would have had the capacity soon to produce weapons to be used against Israel. Haig and Reagan, who had both returned to Camp David for the talks with López Portillo, discussed toughening the U.S. position as Arab protests mounted. Reagan agreed that this should be done. Crafted at the State Department, a new statement was shown to the President by Haig. Reagan approved it without changing a word. Read...
Quietly, he made intricate arrangements for the meeting. By Sunday, June 7, his chief military attaché, Brigadier General Efraim Poran, had called all 14 members of the Israeli Cabinet, asking each if he could come to a special 5 p.m. session with Prime Minister Menachem Begin at his Jerusalem home on that day. Each man thought that he was the only one invited and that a private chat about politics and policy would follow. It was a privilege to accept, and they did, though a few of the more orthodox Cabinet members grumbled that the appointed hour was dangerously close...
...number of deeply disturbing issues remain. The first is the increasingly truculent unpredictability of Israel, at least under Menachem Begin. The Reagan Administration?and Congress ?needs to pursue the unpleasant implications of the fact that no hold on Israeli behavior seems to be strong enough. The same examination is needed within Israel which runs the risk of ever increasing isolation if even relatively new friends, like Egypt's Sadat, must brace for a shocking surprise just three days after a public show of Israeli esteem...
...armed forces asked Prime Minister Begin to authorize a clandestine, infrared survey of the site at El-Tuwaitha. Before the mission, Begin was given an aerial photograph of the area. He did not hesitate. With a flourish, he signed the bottom of the photograph: "With the salutations of Zion. Menachem Begin...
Rarely has a national leader laid out with such emphasis, or in such vivid language, the distinctive course he had set for his country as did Menachem Begin last week. Samples of the Prime Minister's impassioned discourse...