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Meir made the announcement at a closed meeting of her executive, or governing council, Shimon Peres, Israeli transport minister, said yesterday. Peres said that Meir gave no detailed reason for her resignation. He said she implied the reason was "the half-hearted reception" for her plans to form a minority government...
Despite Kissinger's reassurances, the Israelis seemed doubtful that the Geneva meeting would accomplish anything substantive. They indicated that they were willing to pull back their forces from both banks of the Suez to the Mitla and Gidi passes in middle Sinai. In return, as Transportation Minister Shimon Peres said, "We want some guarantee that territorial concessions will bring about policy changes." One change that Israel will demand is full recognition by the Arabs. Israelis and the Arabs both are convinced, however, that a full peace agreement cannot be reached until the emotional issues of Jerusalem and the status...
...that in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, even she feared that Israel would be defeated and annihilated. Attempting to still the cries of critics who charge that her government was unprepared for the war, she appointed a nonpartisan five-man commission, headed by Supreme Court President Shimon Agranat, to investigate the army's errors...
...disillusionment now widespread in the Arab world is traced by some scholars to the false hopes raised by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the late 1950s and early 1960s. All Arabists agree that the Six-Day War of 1967 was a pivotal event in the history of the region. Says Shimon Shamir, Arab specialist at the Shiloah Institute in Tel Aviv: "The conflict with-and defeat by -Israel was a microcosm of the whole Arab experience with the West." He means that ever since the Renaissance, the whole power of Arab ideology, or political Islam, has been in conflict with...
...four gunmen took control of the embassy and hung a green and white Palestinian flag out a window. The guard and all Thai employees inside the building were promptly set free. But six Israelis, including the Ambassador to Cambodia, Shimon Avimor, were held as hostages. As 500 Thai police and troops surrounded the compound, the terrorists threw out notes listing demands, including the release by Israel of 36 Palestinian prisoners. If the demands were not met within 20 hours, the invaders threatened to blow up the embassy with everyone in it, including themselves...