Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel ties no strings to its aid packages, but it obviously counts on harvesting good will. Says International Cooperation Director Shimon Amir in Jerusalem: "We hope that the Africans will see us as we really are and not as Arab propagandists paint us." Apparently the hope is realistic. In the United Nations and the Organization for African Unity, Black African delegates pay only lip service to Arab-sponsored resolutions that call on Israel to return captured territories...
...Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says so will be out the following morning."When Israeli Trans port Minister Shimon Peres heard of the Egyptian President's death, he spoke in a similar vein: "Nasser had experienced enough shocks of war to be careful in the future. His successor may not be so careful...