Word: shamir
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Once the intifadeh (uprising) began last December, however, Israeli officials singled him out as an instigator. In May, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, acting as Interior Minister, ordered Awad arrested and expelled. Without offering any hard evidence, security officials charged that Awad had incited "civil uprising" and helped write leaflets, distributed by the intifadeh's underground leadership, that advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having...
...Palestinian cause (though not the P.L.O.) received a boost from Secretary of State George Shultz during a five-day tour to promote a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "The fate of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism are interdependent," he said in Cairo. A day later, Shultz berated Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for Israel's failure to consider Palestinian rights. "The continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the frustration of Palestinian rights is a dead-end street," he argued...
Shultz, on his fourth trip to the region this year to promote his peace plan, held two meetings with Shamir in Jerusalem on Sunday in an effort to persuade him to agree to make a commitment to Jordan that Israel will exchange part of the occupied territories for Arab recogniton...
...also met in Israel with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Shamir's coalition partner and political rival; Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin; and members of the parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense committees...
King Hussein, in talks Saturday with Shultz in Amman, insisted on an Israeli commitment to withdraw as a precondition for accepting the U.S. proposal for peace talks. Shultz said he had emphasized to Shamir "the need for King Hussein's side to feel there is something to negotiate about...