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...Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Though no love is lost between the three men, Shamir refrained from criticizing officials of the Labor Party for their roles in Iranscam; and Peres and Rabin, both former Prime Ministers, were backing Shamir's position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable, and a few wags began to refer to the trio of Prime Ministers as the "Gang of Three...
...almost eight hours, the ten-member "inner Cabinet" concluded that an independent investigatory committee would have to be appointed, if only to appease the U.S. Accordingly, Shamir at first turned to Moshe Landau, a former Supreme Court justice, to head a two-member panel to look into the Pollard case. Landau promptly declined the invitation, explaining that the committee as constituted would not have the legal authority to do its job properly...
Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, declared, "Many of us feel that what Pollard did was a mistake, wrong, a crime, a sin . . . and what the Israeli officials did was wrong to initiate and even dumber to continue." Even normally pro-Israel U.S. legislators were embarrassed by Pollard's protestations that he had a "moral obligation" to spy for Israel. Such statements, said Florida Democratic Congressman Lawrence Smith, "are deeply distressing to American Jews, particularly those in the Government or close to it." On the other hand, Smith added, "much of the furor comes from circles...
...Israeli commission's first task will be to investigate the Pollard operation thoroughly. Rotenstreich and Tsur, the probers appointed by the Prime Minister, will presumably focus on the state of Israel's intelligence services, plagued as they have been by an unprecedented series of blunders (see box). Some Israelis believe the central problem is that almost four decades after Israel's independence, the country's vaunted security agencies have lost sight of their country's political objectives, of which the most important at the moment is continued close association with...
WORLD: The Pollard affair casts a chill...