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According to an internal investigation ordered by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, which leaked even as it was being presented to the Israeli Cabinet, Pollard worked for an unnamed high-level Israeli official who specialized in counterterrorism and ran his own spying operation in Washington. At least two Israeli newspapers named the official as Rafi Eitan, who served under former Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir as special adviser on counterterrorism from 1978 to 1984. When Peres came into power last year, he removed Eitan from his counterterrorism post but bowed to pressure and kept him on in a vaguer...
Prime Minister Shimon Peres' national unity government is under pressure, especially from the extreme right, to take a tougher line on Arab terrorism. Kahane, who advocates expulsion of all Arabs from Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, is gaining popularity, as is Tehiya, a small, right-wing party. A poll printed at week's end by the daily newspaper Ma'ariv showed that if elections were held today, Kahane's Kach Party would increase its seats in the Knesset from one to five, while Tehiya would go from five to nine. Kahane, whose anti-Arab views strike...
...United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel saluted the U.N.'s 40th anniversary with a speech that experts considered to be one of the most accommodating public statements ever made by an Israeli leader on the subject of the peace process. Recalling the late Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel in 1977, Peres pledged to go to Jordan "or any location" to hold direct peace negotiations with King Hussein before the end of 1985. For the first time, Peres also gave partial support to Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference...
From the outset, the showdown threatened to topple Israel's 14-month-old "national unity" government. The crisis began early in the week when Israeli Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon publicly accused Prime Minister Shimon Peres of "unparalleled cynicism" in his handling of secret Middle East peace negotiations. Two days later Peres struck back. His ultimatum: Sharon would either have to apologize for the verbal assault or face dismissal, a move that would almost certainly dissolve the coalition government and probably force new elections. Sharon testily countered by offering up a brief "apology." Enraged, Peres dismissed the gesture...
...Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, finally came up with a list of Palestinians acceptable to the P.L.O. who could serve on a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team. The group would meet first with U.S. diplomats to pave the way for direct negotiations with Israel. Although Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he would welcome direct negotiations with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, he is not prepared to talk with Palestinians who have links to the P.L.O. Hussein sent the list to the State Department, which then showed it to the Israelis, who quickly rejected it. The Israelis complained that...