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...million of its 5 million inhabitants would be Arabs. In two more decades, according to current growth rates, the number of Arabs will have grown to 4 million and virtually closed the gap with the Jewish population. The result would be a "Palestinization" of Israel, as Opposition Leader Shimon Peres put it during this year's election campaign. What the Israelis would prefer is a sort of common-law marriage in which Israel and the West Bank could be united in all but a constitutional sense, and the P.L.O. vanquished by prosperity and stability...
...your story "Saved by the Moral Minority" [Aug. 17], you quote Prime Minister Begin as having said in parliament of his colleague and leader of the opposition, Shimon Peres, "The gentleman is a liar; the gentleman is a liar." The Prime Minister never uttered such words. What the Prime Minister said was: "In the British Parliament it is forbidden to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is a liar.' It is also unparliamentary to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is lying!' It is, however, acceptable to say, 'The right honorable gentleman told a lie!' This...
...Knesset session, raucous and bitter, lasted for almost 14 hours. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres charged that the coalition talks had been preoccupied with "payoffs for the religious parties and ministries for the power hungry." Begin, who was heckled repeatedly, said angrily of Peres, "The gentleman is a liar; the gentleman is a liar." Reviewing the proceedings, a ranking civil servant in Jerusalem predicted that the new Knesset would be "entertaining, but disgraceful." And from all signs, ineffectual...
...least one political consultant credits a jingle with influencing a presidential race. David Sawyer of New York, whose clients have included Edward Kennedy and Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, says Gerald Ford surged back almost to victory in 1976 partly because he captured the country's mood with "I'm feelin' good about America/ I'm feelin' good about...
...Beirut raid had indeed shocked the world, as the Israelis were worriedly acknowledging. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres flatly called it "a mistake." On the other hand, the Israeli raids on Lebanon called attention to the enormous arms buildup of the P.L.O. over the past six months. The new arms, paid for mainly by Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, include Soviet-made 122-mm howitzers and 130-mm field guns. These weapons have not yet turned the Palestinians into a serious threat to the Israeli armed forces, but they have made it difficult for the Israelis to knock out P.L.O. concentrations...