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...been sent to Edwin Meese in 1985, shortly after he became the nation's top law enforcement officer. The suggestion allegedly came from E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend and his former personal attorney. The purported proposal: that a bribe be paid to an Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Shimon Peres or his Labor Party, to ensure that Israel would not sabotage a proposed pipeline that would carry Iraqi oil through Jordan to the Red Sea, bypassing the perilous Persian Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Trouble for Meese | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Foreign Minister Shimon Perez accused the Greek government of committing an "unfriendly act" by failing to prevent the voyage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestinians Bomb Israeli Bus | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...assault gave Israeli officials one more reason to reject the possibility of pursuing peace talks with the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat. But beyond the policy of beatings, Israeli officials offered no new ideas for dealing with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East Beatings in Place of Bullets | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...they came to realize that they were fighting not just a few troublemakers but an entire population, whose ire was being fanned by militant Islamic fundamentalism. "We are dealing with a new phenomenon that we are only beginning to recognize," said a senior official. Added Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "It is one national will against another national will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East In the Eye Of a Revolt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

Israel is an a quandary of state-threatening proportions. As Shimon Peres pointed out in a recent interview, either Israel admits the Palestinians to full citizenship in order to remain democratic but losing the notion of a Jewish state or it continues to oppress them and as a result becomes an illiberal regime...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Solution For Israel | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

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