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...part of the reason why many Israelis have turned against them. Another is money: guarding and maintaining the settlements costs plenty. A study by the newspaper Ha'aretz reckons that since 1967, the bills run upwards of $10 billion, excluding military costs in the West Bank. According to Yaacov Shamir, a communications professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recent polls show that 52% of Israelis are prepared to withdraw from settlements as part of a future peace deal with Palestinians...
...with non-Arab nations in the Middle East. But Jerusalem was dismayed at the Administration's allegation that Israel was also involved in the transfer of funds for the contras. Fearful that any association with the contra scheme could undermine Israel's strong support in Congress, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last week took the unusual step of publicly disputing a high U.S. official and denied that Jerusalem was in any way involved in that part of the operation...
...assertion by Amiram Nir, Israel's adviser on counterterrorism to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, that the U.S. decided what price Iran should pay for the American arms. Although President Reagan has insisted that a third country, presumably Israel, had been "overcharging" Iran for weapons shipments, Nir told his Israeli government superiors about a meeting, probably in Washington early this year (late January or early February) at which North set the price at three or four times the book value of the weapons. Nir claimed that other unnamed White House officials attended the meeting and "no one asked questions" about...
...against an Iron Wall, when they realize they had no alternative but to accept Jewish Settlement.”In an article published last week in Haaretz, Israel’s leading newspaper, Bradley Bursten recalls that “In 1977, the Likud of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir was derided abroad—and by the left at home—as a group led by terror warlords, a movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings. It was seen—ingenuously, by the left—as little more...
Hours later, Shamir appealed for an agreement to resume the convention within a few weeks. Labor Party leaders, for their part, maintained a discreet silence, but they were said to be discussing the developments with the smaller political parties that have supported Likud in the past. The pro-Labor Jerusalem Post asked how Herut could be considered fit to govern when its leaders accused one another of being "power-mad cheats, liars, vote riggers, megalomaniacs and, all in all, criminals." At his home on Zemach Street, Menachem Begin kept his own counsel but was reportedly distraught at the Herut bloodletting...