Word: shamir
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...Pollard, who two weeks ago was sentenced by a U.S. district court in Washington to life imprisonment on charges of spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. This week a delegation of some 65 American Jewish leaders will arrive in Jerusalem with a blunt message for Prime Minister Shamir and other Israeli leaders: that the Pollard affair threatens to do long-term damage to Israel's vital relationship with the U.S. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, provided a fair sample of what the Israelis can expect to hear. "What began...
...Trade, Ariel Sharon, declared, "Israel does not receive from the U.S. all the information it needs; certainly not. If we compare what we gave over the years with what we got, we without doubt gave much more in much more important fields than we received." Said Prime Minister Shamir of the convicted spy: "The State of Israel didn't hire him and didn't assign him espionage missions." As for Pollard, Shamir observed, his plight was a "human problem, maybe a moral problem," but it was "not a problem that the State of Israel must concern itself with...
...week, some Cabinet ministers and Knesset members called on the government to establish a commission of inquiry similar to the one headed by Israel's late Chief Justice, Yitzhak Kahan, in 1982-83 to investigate the massacre of Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Shamir dismissed their demands as "hysterical and unjustified." When former Foreign Minister Abba Eban pressed doggedly for such an investigation, Shamir urged caution. "Certain people generate echoes when they speak," Shamir told Eban, "and hence they should think twice before making a declaration." Later, when Eban announced that the Knesset's seven...
...Prime Minister's opposition to a full-scale probe was supported initially by the two ranking Labor Partiy members in the ruling coalition, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Though no love is lost between the three men, Shamir refrained from criticizing officials of the Labor Party for their roles in Iranscam; and Peres and Rabin, both former Prime Ministers, were backing Shamir's position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable...
...midweek, however, as pressure from overseas intensified, the Jerusalem government realized it would have to act. On Wednesday, after meeting for almost eight hours, the ten-member "inner Cabinet" concluded that an independent investigatory committee would have to be appointed, if only to appease the U.S. Accordingly, Shamir at first turned to Moshe Landau, a former Supreme Court justice, to head a two-member panel to look into the Pollard case. Landau promptly declined the invitation, explaining that the committee as constituted would not have the legal authority to do its job properly...