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At the heart of the debate is the principle of "land for peace," according to which Israel would agree to make territorial concessions in the Arab regions it has occupied since 1967 in return for the establishment of peaceful relations with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as...
The increasingly bitter sniping between the two top Cabinet officials led some Shamir aides to hint that the Prime Minister was considering sacking Peres. But such a move would probably force the next election, now scheduled for November, to be held much earlier. Shamir is reluctant to take such a...
That view is shared by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who two weeks ago responded coolly to a U.S. proposal for indirect talks with the Palestinians leading to local elections and then negotiations on the permanent status of the occupied territories. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he had "no substantive reservations...
The response from Israel's divided leadership was ambivalent. Though hard- liners like Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin have been warning that the Palestinians should not be rewarded for their violence with negotiations, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres publicly applauded the U.S. initiative. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir initially indicated that he might...
The following July, Bush and his chief of staff, Craig Fuller, met in Jerusalem with Amiram Nir, an adviser to then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Nir was helping to arrange the arms sales to Iran. According to Fuller's detailed account of the meeting, Nir told Bush the deal was...