Word: sarid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister Yitzhak Rabin came under withering fire from opposition parties on both the right and left. Hard-liners charged the army was not doing enough. Doves attacked Rabin for the mounting death toll. "This policy is not only killing Palestinians but also the souls of Israeli soldiers," said Yossi Sarid of the left-wing Citizen's Rights Movement. Hecklers finally drove Rabin from the parliamentary chamber...
...soldiers patrol the territories. More than 90% are reservists, who owe the army about 60 days of service a year, twice the time served before the intifadeh. Yet they have little time for regular training. "We are eroding the army's resources, physically and intellectually," said Knesset member Sarid. So many normal training routines have been interrupted that, as a U.S. Pentagon official put it, "we fear a deterioration of I.D.F. military capability." American military attaches in close contact with the Israeli army report "moral confusion" at all levels of the I.D.F. "The operation in the occupied territories is dividing...
...concerns. They feared that the attack might backfire, unleashing a vengeful and more virulent wave of violence in the territories, strengthening extremist forces within the P.L.O. and weakening the already thin prospects for a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "Abu after Abu can be liquidated," warned Knesset Member Yossi Sarid. "But this will not liquidate the Palestinian problem...
...scrap a warplane that has become a symbol of national pride and a key source of jobs. The need to make that choice has triggered a vitriolic debate in which military and economic issues have frequently given way to pure emotion. "The real question," shouted Knesset Member Yosi Sarid last month, "is whether we become a state which has a fighter plane or a fighter plane which has a state." Even Rabin admits that the choice is the "most difficult and important decision faced by an Israeli government in more than a decade...
Prof. Khalidi declared--to the astonishment and relief of several Israelis in the Forum Room that he had no problem in accepting the formula that was presented by Yossi Sarid, in its precise language...