Word: perese
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Meanwhile, Sadat's meetings with Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres the week before in Austria had stormy repercussions in Israel. The Egyptians have barely concealed their frustration with Premier Menachem Begin, who they believe has no interest in negotiating for peace. Asked whether...
Although Begin had given advance approval to both the Weizman and Peres meetings with Sadat, the Defense Minister returned home to a scathing attack from other members of the Israeli Cabinet. They accused him of negotiating without authority and using the peace process to burnish his own image. Begin suggested...
It was not Menachem Begin's finest hour. During a rowdy session of the Knesset that was televised nationally last week, Israel's Premier lost his temper in a debate with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres about Peres' talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna, came...
Begin's angry outburst even spilled over into the Knesset cafeteria after the debate, where the Premier, according to numerous witnesses, cursed Peres in Russian and Polish. He also disclosed that Peres had met secretly with King Hassan II of Morocco in Rabat following the Sadat talks and "even...
In Washington, Carter Administration officials were pleased with the new round of contacts. "It would have been inconceivable a year ago," observed a State Department Middle East expert of Sadat's meeting with Peres, "yet now we accept such talks between Israel and Egypt with nonchalance." American officials also...