Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely midnight the kidnapers cited the family appeals among their reasons for lifting the execution threat. The captors seemed intrigued, however, by remarks of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres concerning the 400 Arab prisoners. While Peres declared, "Israel cannot and will not act according to ultimatums," he added that "if anyone has any offers, he should please turn to Israel in an orderly fashion." That seemed a scarcely veiled reference to an offer by Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who said he would release an Israeli flyer held by Amal if Jerusalem freed the 400 prisoners...
...investigation found that Reagan may have known more about some of the private efforts to assist the contras than has been reported. Before holding a meeting with then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last September, Reagan was briefed by Poindexter on an Israeli proposal to ship a "significant quantity" of East bloc weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels. Chief of Staff Regan told the President that if Peres brought up the matter, "just say thanks." The committee found evidence that a shipment was engineered by Secord and Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
While Israelis were in a holiday mood last week, many of the country's top political leaders had their own cause for celebration. They rejoiced over a sober 65-page Justice Ministry report that cleared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of complicity in the 1984 murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers by agents of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency...
...Israeli who participated in U.S.-approved sales to Iran in 1985 of American weapons from Israeli stockpiles reveals that some of the proceeds were originally supposed to be funneled back into Iran to finance groups working to overthrow the Khomeini government. He displayed a memo written to Shimon Peres, then Israeli Prime Minister, which named this ingenious scheme of having the Ayatullah finance his own downfall as one of the goals of the arms sales...
...immediate result of Meese's revelations was a spate of denials. In Jerusalem, the three top officials of the Israeli government -- Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- met in a crisis session and drafted a statement. For the first time, the government admitted what everyone knew: Israel had "helped in the transfer of defensive weapons and spare parts from the U.S. to Iran." But the Israelis flatly denied funneling any money to the contras. According to the statement, "The payment for this equipment was made directly by an Iranian representative to a Swiss...