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Menachem Begin shakes hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and then makes a mockery and farce out of the hope for peace in the Middle East by attacking Iraq's nuclear reactor [June 22]. When will he and his government learn that you can't shake one Arab's hand and hold a gun to another Arab's head and call it making peace? Put down your guns, shake your enemy's hand and see how fast you'll have fewer enemies. The majority of the population of the Middle East are Arab...
...young democracy when toughs broke up Labor Party rallies, threw eggs and tomatoes at Peres' car and shouted down speeches by Labor candidates. Begin undoubtedly picked up votes from his virulent anti-German campaign, his stern stand on the Syrian missile crisis, his meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last month and, above all, the surprise Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
Peres accused Begin of making "highflying speeches" about the Syrian missile crisis, and criticized the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor because it jeopardized the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and put Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "in an impossible position." Begin replied that Sadat was still friendly toward him. As the campaign headed into this week's election, some polls showed Likud in the lead, 39% to 32%, but others called the race virtually even. Trying to pick up the large number of undecided votes, Peres offered the post of Defense Minister in his shadow cabinet to former Prime Minister...
...other Arab leaders closed ranks, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat found himself once again dangerously isolated because of his continuing support of the peace talks with Israel. So outraged was the Egyptian parliament by the raid that it might have demanded that the entire Egyptian-Israeli dialogue be reconsidered if Sadat aides had not intervened to cool off the members of his own party. Egyptian officials, moreover, expressed concern that the U.S.'s own credibility in the Middle East was at stake and urged Washington to take a decisive stand for the sake of its interests...
...Arab with a particular right to feel outraged was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was "totally astonished" by the news of the raid. Well he might have been; Sadat had held a highly publicized summit meeting with Begin in the Sinai only three days before the raid, and received no hint that trouble might lie ahead...