Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon, pounced on Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens kept silent...
...between Israel and Jordan in the next few weeks or months, Peres will be sorely tempted to find a way to encourage his coalition partner to topple the government and force elections. Otherwise, under the national unity coalition agreement, he must turn over the Prime Minister's job to Shamir in October. But in the meantime, Peres plans to do nothing that would divert him from nailing down the talks with Hussein...
...Israelis who have been convicted of terrorism or who are charged with being members of a Jewish extremist group. The settlers' efforts were supported by leading figures in the Likud bloc, a partner with Peres' Labor Party in the national unity government. The Likud's leader, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in a radio interview that he favored the release of the Israeli extremists "if only they publicly express their remorse at what they have done or intended to do." Even more adamant was another powerful Likud member, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, the former Defense Minister who planned...
...resistance, or to withdraw, perhaps leaving its northern settlements vulnerable to attack. Though the majority of the Cabinet voted for withdrawal, regarding it in Rabin's words as "the right solution in a difficult reality," some Cabinet members remain firmly opposed to that action. Says Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in the national unity government: "We are withdrawing without securing Galilee...
...terrorism issue that caused the Cabinet split over withdrawal. Shamir and other Likud members argue that the possibility of P.L.O. attacks should remain a paramount concern in Jerusalem: a pullback without firm security guarantees from the Gemayel government will simply allow P.L.O. guerrillas to filter back into southern Lebanon. That, in Shamir's words, would amount to "abandoning the Galilee...