Word: shamir
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Fearful that the Israeli pullback would take the pressure off the Syrians to withdraw their forces, the Reagan Administration attempted to put the best face possible on Israel's decision. Thus the White House played host to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Washington last week. The officials were rilling in for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who one week earlier had unexpectedly canceled his own trip to the U.S. After more than 15 hours of talks at the State Department, Arens and Shamir met briefly with Ronald Reagan to offer publicly the assurance that...
...concessions to the rebels and particularly to the Syrians, whose aim is to re-establish themselves as a diplomatic force in the Middle East and who may not be willing to countenance Arafat's continued leadership. Arafat's troubles were also welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who described the quarreling within the P.L.O. as "good for Israel" and indeed a positive result of Israel's costly war in Lebanon. His reasoning presumably is that any step toward further radicalization of the P.L.O. would prevent the U.S. from giving tacit support to P.L.O. moderates and make...
Gone for the moment was any thought of an immediate withdrawal of Syrian, Palestinian and Israeli forces from Lebanon, as envisioned by the recently signed Israeli-Lebanese accord. Warned Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We hope Syria won't make a fatal mistake." Later the Syrians said that the purpose of the maneuvers was purely defensive, leading Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens to declare that "if true," the statement was "good news...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told the Knesset last week that if Syria did not pull its troops out of Lebanon now, "Israel will be free to act according to its interests." He meant that Israel would leave its troops in Lebanon as long as it saw fit, perhaps concentrating them in more defensible positions in the southern part of the country. By late last week most of the "clarifications" of the agreement that Israel had demanded had been sorted out, paving the way for a signing some time this week...
General Barrow drafted his angry letter just as Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, visited Washington for intensive negotiations with Secretary of State George Shultz. The purpose: to break the logjam in talks on withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The U.S. offered a variety of suggestions under which the security of southern Lebanon would be the responsibility of the Lebanese army and perhaps of special Lebanese units trained and equipped by the U.S. Major Saad Haddad's 1,200-man militia, which enjoys close links with the Israelis, could be integrated into this special...