Word: shamir
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...nationwide municipal elections were not about road improvements and garbage collection -- or so said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "Every vote for the Likud," he proclaimed at an election rally, "means that Israel wants no business with the murderers of our sons." When the votes were tallied last week, his right-wing Likud bloc had carried 44 of the 99 municipalities, up from 26 in 1983. Elated, Shamir claimed an ideological victory for his policies opposing both territorial compromise and talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Jerusalem's preference for direct talks with the other Arabs, sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Later, Shevardnadze warned that Moscow would not resume diplomatic ties with Israel until Jerusalem accepted an international forum. Arens said restoring relations was not a precondition, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that normalization still must precede a larger Soviet role in Middle East diplomacy...
Israeli officials condemned the report as "harsh" and "one-sided," but did not dispute the particulars. Instead they argued that the U.S. had ignored the "constant provocations" by "extremist elements." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charged that the "media exaggerate" and said that "the behavior of our army is equal to that of any other army in the Western world...
Last month Shamir suggested for the first time that the United Nations could play a strictly limited role in launching peace negotiations. All these hints appear designed to achieve two things: pre-empt any peace proposals from the Bush Administration that might entail U.S. pressure on Israel -- though there is no sign that any proposals are being seriously considered -- and lob responsibility for rejecting peace talks back into the Palestinian court...
...Shamir has given no sign he is willing to make real concessions to the Palestinians. He is strongly against any substantive international role in Middle East talks as well as any dealings with the P.L.O. Most important of all, Shamir absolutely opposes giving up control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...