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High on a hilltop, bareheaded and wrapped in a green parka, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 61, surveyed the Israeli front lines at the Awali River, just north of the Lebanese coastal town of Sidon. "The whole nation appreciates what you did under difficult conditions," the Prime Minister later told...
Israel is already America's biggest foreign-aid client. This year it received $1.2 billion in economic assistance and $1.4 billion in direct military aid. But faced with a 445% annual inflation rate and dwindling foreign-exchange reserves, the new government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres estimates it will need...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came to Washington last week to lobby for the military-aid portion of Israel's request (see WORLD). At a midweek meeting in the White House, he said that Israel is "taking real risks" by cutting its own defense spending to $2.6 billion, a twelve...
The decision was a victory for Peres, who has long been critical of the frustrating and costly occupation of Lebanese territory that began with Israel's invasion of its neighbor on June 6, 1982. No longer will Israel be, as he put it, "the policeman of Lebanon," a role that...
Israel promised that "efforts to reach diplomatic agreements will continue," even as the Peres government laid out the broad thrust of the withdrawal scheme. The first installment of the pullout calls for the Israelis to leave the northwestern sector of occupied territory, around the city of Sidon and along the...