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...country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin's major opponent in the June 30 Israeli elections, denounced the U.S. decision as "dangerous to the peace process and security of the region." Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zipori pledged that Israel would take its case "to the American people"-a clear signal to the lobby...
...Jerusalem, Haig met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin for 4½ hours and breakfasted with Shimon Peres and Abba Eban, leaders of the opposition Labor coalition. Haig found the Israelis warmly receptive to his strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
...came in last week, however, it appeared as if the barometer had gone haywire. "This means good returns for the Likud in June," said Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ruling conservative coalition. Said Begin's challenger, opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres: "We are rather satisfied with the results...
...priority to checking Soviet interventionism in the Middle East. In fact, Haig would prefer not to draw attention to a situation that will probably remain deadlocked until the Israeli election on June 30, which is likely to bring in a new, more flexible government headed by Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. Further, it seems probable that the Reagan Administration will agree to sell equipment to Saudi Arabia that would increase the range and bombing capacity of F-15 jets already purchased by that country, even though Israel opposes any military strengthening of its Arab neighbors...
...agreement on the Palestinians with the Begin government, and has now pinned his hopes on a probable Labor Party victory in Israel's June 30 elections. During a four-day visit to Egypt last week, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky passed along his belief that Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres would be prepared to reach an early agreement on autonomy, perhaps even by the end of the year. Although Sadat's proposed government in exile would not play a role until after the transitional period called for under the Camp David accords, such a government would help pave...