Word: shamir
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...prime minister's visit comes a month before he is due to swap jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the conservative Likud bloc under a power-sharing pact between Likud and the left-of-center Labor Party...
...Israelis initially tried to paint a brighter picture, calling the session "candid and correct." But the rhetoric soon heated up. In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared that Israel had been entitled to raise the emigration issue, since it had a valuable "asset" in the form of 2 million Soviet Jews. In Moscow, Gerasimov retorted, "That is a very arrogant interference in (our) internal affairs. It is like saying that all the Anglo- Saxons in America are the property of the Queen of England...
Experts indicated that the Israelis blundered in their strong insistence on the highly charged question of Soviet Jewry. Domestic politics clearly played a large role in the Israeli performance. Under a power-sharing agreement, Shamir and Prime Minister Shimon Peres are due to swap jobs in October. Some government insiders contend that Shamir aimed to undermine the Helsinki talks to deny Peres a foreign policy triumph. Hence, they say, Shamir pushed hard to put Soviet Jewry on the agenda. But if Shamir upstaged Peres in Helsinki, Peres played an impressive card of his own: on Thursday he announced he would...
...Shamir's position was complicated when it was disclosed that Shalom had written a letter to President Herzog, pleading that "all my actions in the matter of Bus 300 were carried out by authority and with permission." According to Israeli press accounts, that permission could only have come from Shamir, since the Prime Minister has sole authority over Shin...
...Shalom pardon was illegal, the Israeli Supreme Court last week took up the case. After two days of hearings, a three- justice panel ordered the government to show by July 14 why it should not begin a police probe of Shin Bet. If the court eventually orders an investigation, Shamir and the Likud will be forced to go along...