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Leaks and rumors swirled anew last week as Israel continued to debate allegations that security agents lied, tampered with evidence and suborned witnesses to hide their involvement in the deaths of two captured Palestinian terrorists. Newly appointed Attorney General Yosef Harish began considering proposals for an inquiry into a possible...
Both Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his Likud-bloc partner in the ruling coalition, continue to oppose any investigation that might reveal the ( inner workings of the Shin Bet. "The Shin Bet," said Shamir last week, "can be examined," but "without revealing its secrets." Harish is shortly expected to...
It was one of the ugliest incidents in Israel's decades-long war against terrorism: in 1984, two Palestinians captured by Israeli forces after they had hijacked a bus died in custody, under circumstances that have yet to be explained. Last week those deaths had embroiled the Jerusalem government in...
In a rare show of unity, Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who heads the conservative Likud bloc in the coalition government, joined forces to oppose Zamir. Peres insisted that the "functioning of the Shin Bet would be undermined by the investigation, and sometimes considerations of state security override legal...
The latest allegations came at a time of mounting unrest between Israel and Syria. In recent weeks the Syrians have been building new tank and artillery emplacements in southern Lebanon. As Peres put it, Syrian forces have been steadily "creeping" toward Israel's northern border. Only last week Syrian- backed...