Word: rabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does, the Israelis are beginning to view the Shi'ite opposition in southern Lebanon as an armed struggle of much broader scope than they had previously thought. Some Labor ministers in the government, including Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, are in fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column...
...against the Israeli presence had exacted a mounting toll of casualties. Syria provided moral and logistical support to the Shi'ite resistance, finding this a way to fight Israel at little cost. One of the worst consequences of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as Israel's Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin put it last month, is that it let "the Shi'ite genie out of the bottle...
...growing ties with Syria, whose government is trying to increase its political influence in Lebanon. Gemayel's remarks were ironic because his family had welcomed the Israeli forces into Lebanon in 1982 as a means of ridding the country of dominance by the P.L.O. Snapped Defense Minister Rabin: "It is a demonstration of arrogance and ill will. He wouldn't be President if it weren't for our involvement...
...faced a dismal choice: to stay on in Lebanon, sustaining more casualties and serving as a catalyst for the growth of the Shi'ite resistance, or to withdraw, perhaps leaving its northern settlements vulnerable to attack. Though the majority of the Cabinet voted for withdrawal, regarding it in Rabin's words as "the right solution in a difficult reality," some Cabinet members remain firmly opposed to that action. Says Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in the national unity government: "We are withdrawing without securing Galilee...
...moderate Arab states, as are proposed U.S. arms sales to those countries. Saudi Arabia is scheduled to buy 40 more American F-15 fighter jets, along with missiles and tanks, a sale the Administration intended to announce during King Fahd's visit to Washington next week. But after Rabin argued that the planes would shift the region's military balance, the State Department announced a postponement and a "comprehensive review" of all arms sales to the Middle East...