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...among America's 6 million Jews, says Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, "happened in ways outside anyone's control." Yet the fact is that Jerusalem did all that it could-as any government would-to promote the new man. Begin, for example, dispatched a personal emissary, Shmuel Katz, on a month-long mission to the U.S. in early June. Working closely with the Israeli embassy in Washington, Katz met with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Congressmen and journalists, then traveled to New York and Chicago to confer with Jewish lay and religious leaders and more journalists. Says...
Still, neither Shmuel Katz nor any single organization can be wholly credited with the swift turnabout in attitudes toward Begin. Also responsible was a series of extemporaneous efforts by hundreds of Jewish groups and thousands of individual Jews who feared that any wavering of support for the Jerusalem government-however hawkish the Premier -might endanger Israel's survival...
...similar to those in larger and older nations from which less purity of purpose is expected? The theories range from the cupidity that is inevitable in a long-entrenched government to Israel's "clan mentality" that blurs the dividing line between public purse and private pocket. Knesset Member Shmuel Tamir also points out, "We have people in charge of budgets with hundreds of thousands of Israeli pounds who receive very small salaries, hardly enough for the average man to live on. You can't expect a whole society to be watertight, idealistic and dedicated...
...surprisingly, the Israeli government has shown little enthusiasm for Zayad and his gadfly coalition of Communists, Christians and Moslems. "When he was elected, we said to ourselves that we would just have to make the best of it," says Shmuel Toledano, the Israeli government's chief expert on local Arab affairs. "Our assessment of Nazareth, after nine months of Zayad, is that things are no better today than they were before...
...good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster," says Gershon Shafat. "His priorities...