Word: shamir
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...quite. The withdrawal scheme was opposed by hard-line Likud members of the unity government, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, thus putting a heavy strain on the coalition. Moreover, the decision to leave Lebanon is fraught with uncertainties and hazards. It marked a victory of sorts for Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has opposed a negotiated pullback agreement between Israel and Lebanon. But, above all, Jerusalem's move shifted a new and perhaps unbearable burden onto the frail government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: the maintenance of peace and order in southern Lebanon after...
...impromptu regional tour. After spending a day in the Lebanese capital, Murphy visited Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo and Amman on what he called a "mission of exploration." Murphy was primarily seeking a way to speed a withdrawal of the 22,000 Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said last week that he would like the U.S. to act as an intermediary with Syria in brokering a mutual troop withdrawal from Lebanon. Israeli officials also indicated for the first time that they might agree to bring their forces home without waiting for Syria to pull...
...sympathetic ear in Jerusalem either. Though he and Prime Minister Shimon Peres have exchanged notes about improving relations, Mubarak received a vivid example last week of the difficulties in dealing with an Israeli government of national unity that is nonetheless composed of ideological opposites. A spokesman for Foreign Minister Shamir, who was in New York City last week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, said that Israel still opposed the Reagan peace plan. This brought a terse rejoinder from Jerusalem, where Peres' Cabinet Secretary said that the gnew government, which was formed only last month...
...Shamir seemed on firmer footing when he let it be known last week that Jerusalem had dropped the key demand that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon at the same time as Israel. "As a matter of principle, we believe that all foreign forces should be withdrawn," Shamir said. "But the question of how and when and under what circumstances-that is to be negotiated." There is a powerful reason for Israel's growing flexibility: last week two more Israeli soldiers were killed and ten wounded by unknown assailants in surprise attacks. "We have only two desires," says...
Peres was speaking to the Reagan Administration as much as to the Israeli citizen. The Prime Minister-accompanied by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who under the terms of the coalition agreement will swap jobs with Peres after 25 months-is scheduled to meet with Reagan in Washington on Oct. 9. Anticipating that the election-year U.S. Congress will approve a record $2.6 billion in economic and military aid to Israel for fiscal 1985, which starts Oct. 1, Israeli officials will ask that Washington give them $1.2 billion of that amount immediately to meet interest payments...