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...hawkish mood these days, even though hawkishness in the past has achieved far less for Israel than moderation and openness to negotiation. Remembering David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, Israelis seem to be looking for more charisma than Rabin can provide. Meanwhile, he is being pushed by his opposition. Shimon Peres has indicated that if he decides he cannot go along with any government policy, he will bolt the government and run against Rabin, either independently or in the Labor Party. In addition, a covey of former generals, including former Intelligence Chief Aharon Yariv, is threatening to form a third...
...draws on Kissinger's private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength and imagination, called Defense Minister Shimon Peres "a pseudo hawk" who terrorized his colleagues, and dismissed Rabin as "too small a man for the job." Rabin was equally candid about Kissinger: "It isn't possible to believe a word that man is saying." Asked about Golan's book, a State Department spokesman said...
Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who maintains that the Arabs plan to spend $14 billion of their petrodollars on arms, wanted at least $560 million more than Rabinowitz was prepared to give him. Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur said serious cuts in defense spending might impair Israel's "chance to win a clear victory in a new war within a reasonable time." But some Israeli doves, who have been relatively silent since the October War, surfaced to protest that line of reasoning. Argued Jacob Arnon, a former Finance Ministry director: "There comes a point when defense spending becomes so enormous...
After ten days of talks and testimony in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres returned home last week reasonably confident that the U.S. Congress will approve military aid to Israel totaling $1.8 billion this year. Yet an emotionally charged debate continues in and out of Washington on one item on Israel's shopping list: the Pershing missile, which has a nuclear potential. Although Jerusalem has never confirmed or denied it, U.S. intelligence experts assume that Israeli technicians have built about ten bulky A-bombs using the uranium that is a byproduct of the country's Dimona reactor...
General Dynamics attracted the real pros: Senators Strom Thurmond and Howard Cannon and Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who may have about $2 billion in aid to spend on weapons if Congress approves the Israeli-Egyptian accord. They climbed into a mock-up cockpit of the F-16 fighter and were briefed on a computerized projection device...