Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divisions among Israelis compound Shamir's difficulties. At the start of the three-day meeting in Jerusalem, stories in Israeli newspapers described a new intelligence analysis contending that the intifadeh -- the popular uprising by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank -- could not be suppressed by force. Only political measures, including talks with the P.L.O., would lead to a solution...
...Shamir initially denounced the stories as "lies," but later his spokesman acknowledged that the intelligence report existed. While the document offered no specific recommendations, it did say Jerusalem could no longer ignore the P.L.O. The intelligence assessment came a fortnight after a critical report from the prestigious Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. In a study sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, the think tank concluded that none of the long-term peace options that either Shamir or the Palestinian leadership considers acceptable have any chance to succeed. The scholars argued that moving beyond the status...
Such domestic pressure reinforces the Bush Administration's strategy: declining to put forth a made-in-Washington peace plan that Shamir would immediately reject, while allowing mounting diplomatic heat to force him to come up with his own proposal. The White House has made clear that it expects the Israeli leader to bring along some ideas when he sees Bush on April 6. At the same time, the Administration suggests modest concessions by both sides as first steps toward an eventual agreement. On Israel's part, such "confidence- building measures" would include releasing at least some Palestinians imprisoned during...
Though P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat has become more flexible and wily in his diplomacy, his organization's intransigence nearly matches Shamir's. In his first formal session with the P.L.O. last week, a four-hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...
...Most of the leaders of mainstream Jewish organizations are more circumspect in their public utterances, but they have been bombarding Jerusalem with private warnings that Shamir is losing support in the U.S. Both the Conference of Presidents and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ignored Jerusalem's cue to protest Washington's decision to deal with the P.L.O. Moreover, there has been a growing inclination by Jewish leaders to display what has been quietly obvious for years: a preference for the Israeli Labor Party's more flexible approach. Theodore Mann, former head of the American Jewish Congress, argues that Jewish...