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...same generation of Israelis who grew up with the Jewish state's struggle for survival-and yet, even though they are members of the same Cabinet, they are locked in a constant, fratricidal battle. In fact, the rivalry between Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 54, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, has become so intense that practically every issue in Israel's hothouse politics polarizes into a struggle between their competing factions. Israel's national elections are still one year away, but Peres has clearly emerged as the major threat to Rabin's reelection...
...official was Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres. His brief "invasion" of Lebanon-a nation with which Israel has no diplomatic ties-was the first of four trips between late May and late August. As if that were not extraordinary enough, he was accompanied on his third trip into Lebanon by none other than Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who held talks with as yet unnamed Lebanese leaders. Out of these negotiations has come a secret but potentially decisive Israeli intervention in the 17-month-old Lebanese civil war. Acting with the agreement of Lebanon's Christian leadership and a moderate...
...along the border by Israel to keep out guerrillas. Every few miles along the fence there are gates, originally built to allow access for Israeli soldiers raiding P.L.O. bases in Fatahland. Now the gates are open to Lebanese seeking food, work and medical care in Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres calls it the "good fence policy...
Last week, the director of the seminar, Shimon Chasdi, and three members of the group, discussed the origins of the program and their experiences in America...
...Israel, is now seeking the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in New York and needs the Jewish vote. So there he was campaigning, in a sense, 6,000 miles from his constituency. One problem: the Israeli leaders he met seemed distracted. "My mind was somewhere else," confessed Defense Minister Shimon Peres after meeting with Moynihan. As Moynihan learned hours later, "somewhere else" was Uganda, where the dramatic rescue of 104 hostages was taking place...