Word: shimon
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...that, comes a bitter and very public dispute between the leaders of the country's national unity government about the next step in Middle East diplomacy. Both Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, are increasingly worried that Israelis will judge the government's greatest failure to be its inability to achieve a breakthrough in relations with its Arab neighbors. Yet the two men are at loggerheads over a peace strategy. Shamir holds out for direct talks, maintaining that the only way to guarantee enduring peace is to negotiate...
...international peace conference to break the diplomatic logjam that has plagued the Middle East for years almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply worried that this...
...Pollard affair has led to renewed criticism of Shamir and his Labor partners in the national unity government, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. One newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, published photos depicting the trio under the caption "Everyone covering up for everyone." In Ha'aretz, Commentator B. Michael wrote that the spy case, along with the Israeli role in Iranscam, was part of a pattern in which Israeli leaders have taken the position that "We did not know, did not hear, did not see, did not report, and we are not responsible...
...Prime Minister's opposition to a full-scale probe was supported initially by the two ranking Labor Partiy members in the ruling coalition, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Though no love is lost between the three men, Shamir refrained from criticizing officials of the Labor Party for their roles in Iranscam; and Peres and Rabin, both former Prime Ministers, were backing Shamir's position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable...
...Israel was mincing words. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin called it a "real disaster, a real wound in Israeli-U.S. relations." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres admitted that Israel had made a "regretful mistake." Declared former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This is the most difficult moment in the history of Israel's international relations, especially because the wrongdoing was done here...