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So said Israel's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, last week as his government completed the most controversial prisoner exchange in the country's history. The swap was lopsided: 1,150 Palestinians and Lebanese, including scores of convicted terrorists, for three Israeli prisoners of war captured in Lebanon in 1982. It...
Among Israelis, the harshest reaction to the exchange came from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, who clashed with celebrating Palestinians and protested against the action of the Israeli government. In Hebron, a handful of settlers raced to the spot where a busload of Palestinian prisoners was arriving and began...
Serious questions about the wisdom of the exchange were also raised in other areas. Said Clinton Bailey, an Arab-affairs expert at Tel Aviv University: "The release of all these convicted murderers is going to confuse the issues of justice and respect for the law and make it very difficult...
+ When the Israelis were first informed of the investigation by Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy earlier this year, they apparently were not aware of the export licensing requirements for Krytrons. Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week told a U.S. television interviewer that Israel's close relationship with the...
Israelis celebrating the 37th anniversary of independence the day after the pullback were gratified, on the whole, that their country's most disastrous military conflict was drawing to a close. They could also rejoice that a possible "major disaster," as Prime Minister Shimon Peres put it, had not disrupted the...