Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, reports TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, the secret Israeli operation began in May 1976 when three Israeli missile boats sailed from Haifa to Jounieh Bay, near the Christian "capital" north of Beirut. Aboard one boat was Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, and his Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. Soon the Israelis were joined by two boats from the mainland, one carrying Camille Chamoun, then a Lebanese Cabinet minister, the other carrying Lebanese Christian Phalangist Party Leader Pierre Gemayel-both boats guided and guarded by Israeli frogmen. Though the two Lebanese Christians, leaders of competing factions, refused to meet with...
...mouth as if he were still in the opposition. He has stopped seeing himself as an ex-underground fighter and has begun to see himself as the leader of the nation." Even some Arabs appear to be intrigued. Says one leading Egyptian official: "Rabin and [Labor Leader Shimon] Peres tended to sit in fixed positions, stalling for time and keeping the diplomatic front frozen. Begin seems to like a war of movement, probing and feinting, feeling out the other side's strength. Frankly, we prefer that...
...Labor Party to Dayan's defection was one of outrage. "This is political prostitution and betrayal," cried Israel Kargman, chairman of the Knesset finance committee. "He has caused us trouble for years," snapped Labor's Jerusalem leader, Uzi Baram. "Let Likud enjoy him now." Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres was reported to be "stunned"; he and Dayan were political allies for 25 years, and left Labor together in 1965; they rejoined the party three years later. Labor officials also blamed the Carter Administration for Begin's nomination of Dayan as well as the Likud victory. Said...
...wing coalition government with the support of Israel's three religious parties (16 seats in the new Knesset) and of retired general Ariel Sharon, an ally of Begin whose group won two seats in parliament. Begin asked for Labor's help in forming a unity government, but a disappointed Shimon Peres, who replaced former Premier Yitzhak Rabin in mid-campaign (TIME, April 18), said no. "The platform of the Likud does not permit the necessary opening for negotiations," said Peres. "The | Likud offers no alternative for peace...
...National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was alerted to an early projection that Labor was out, he could hardly believe it. "No, no," he said. "That's wrong." Solidly committed to a resumption of Geneva peace talks by autumn, the Carter Administration had assumed that it would be dealing with Shimon Peres?who was admittedly a hawk as Defense Minister, but who had expressed in principle his belief that Israel could return occupied territories in exchange for real peace. Begin's determined, possessive attitude toward the West Bank and Gaza?ruling out any possibility of establishing there a Palestinian homeland, which...