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...Even Shamir knows they consult me day and night by phone. I dial direct...
...apartment buildings in Arab East Jerusalem to send the government a message that no retreat would be tolerated from the occupied lands, particularly the Holy City. If that position makes it more difficult to convene a peace conference -- well, said some far-right members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud-led coalition, so much the better. The government, however, branded the move a "mistake," removed the settlers from five of the houses, and shuffled the dispute over to the Attorney General's office...
Israel adopted a lofty attitude. Says Yosef Ahimeir, a key aide to Shamir: "This is a bad signal about the intentions of the Syrians going into the conference, but we will not judge the Syrians on what they declare now. The real test will be at the negotiations themselves...
Last week several planeloads of newcomers arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport. Fortunately, most of them will be around a lot longer than Sharon and Shamir...
Sharon's goal, by contrast, has less to do with an ideological commitment to Greater Israel than with the aggrandizement of his personal power. His strategy, breathtakingly obvious and all too promising, seems to be to subvert the peace process, provoke a crisis with Washington and then elbow Shamir aside in the resulting Cabinet upheaval...