Word: sarid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been working in this field for the last decade. From Israel came a delegation of Knesset (Parliament) members from the Alignment (the Labor and Mapam parties) and from the Shinui party--both of them in the opposition to the governing Likud coalition. The head of the Israeli delegation, Yossi Sarid, 43, is the most salient dove in the Labor party and one of the most talented members of Knesset. He is, in a way, the flagbearer for tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, who believe in a dialogue with the Palestinians and the Arab states and strongly...
...there is a meaning to the expression about taking the wind out of someone's sails, that's what Yossi Sarid's speech did to Saunders' address. Although pre-prepared, Yossi Sarid's speech appeared to be a direct response to Saunders' lecture. Said Sarid, after emphasizing the essential interest that Israel also has in solving the Palestinian problem: "We, the moderates, must deliver the two nations from the vicious circle of just claims... When just claims face just claims, the two sides become involved in a sterile, trite, endless debate; who ought to take the first step, who will...
...Sarid then presented what he called the "Archimedian Point" of the Palestinian problem (and of the Middle East conflict as well), being--"mutual and simultaneous recognition of the right of self-determination of the two nations." This was the first in a line of three principles that Sarid detailed. The second principle dealt with the question of whom Israel should carry on negotiations with: "Israel should talk peace with anyone who adopts this first principle of mutual recognition. Whoever recognizes Israel's right to exist as a sovereign, secure state in the Middle East, should be considered...
According to the third principle, "the final decision [which relates to the form in which the Palestinian Arab Nation will realize its right to self-determination] must be taken--when the time comes--by the Palestinian Arab nation itself" However, Sarid indicated that there are many in Israel, the Arab world, and elsewhere who believe that the solution should take into account "the close links and the strong ties between the West Bank and the East Bank--the Kingdom of Jordan...
...entirely to the issue, Begin agreed to meet a delegation of hunger strikers. When the Communists brought a motion of no confidence against the government, the issue sparked one of the most inflamed debates in the history of the Knesset. Health Minister Eliezer Shostak called Labor Opposition Backbencher Yossi Sarid "a loathsome abomination"; Sarid replied, "You are execrably revolting." After a recess, secret negotiations between the strikers and government ministers resumed. At week's end the government seemed to be surrendering to the doctors' demands, while trying to dissuade other professions from following the precedent...