Word: weizman
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Many of Begin's Cabinet members are still opposed to any form of linkage. Some groused last week that Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had "acted without authority" in their zeal to reach a settlement with the Egyptians in Washington. Later the Cabinet was the scene of an unusually angry argument over a plan by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to establish a big new Israeli settlement in Gaza. Many of Sharon's colleagues thought this a bad idea anyway; practically all of them were angry that his aides had leaked the details of the plan while...
...days as leader of the Irgun underground, who have not only criticized his position but branded him a traitor to the Zionist cause. Begin's performance this week may well decide the fate of the proposed treaty with Egypt. If he breaks with his chief negotiators, Dayan and Weizman, over the Israeli response to the latest proposals from Washington and Cairo, he could destroy the negotiations-and bring on a crisis for his government. If, on the other hand, he can win approval from his unruly Cabinet for a compromise formula on linkage, the achievement of a peace with...
...linkage formula for at least two weeks, but things seem to come unstuck when the delegations return home to seek the approval of their governments. Two weeks ago, for example, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who was on a visit to the U.S. and Canada, sent Defense Minister Ezer Weizman back to Jerusalem to secure the Cabinet's acceptance of a compromise proposal...
...Weizman's chagrin, the Cabinet rejected the proposal because the linkage between the Israeli-Egyptian treaty and broader peace negotiations was too strong. The document called for the two nations to begin practical negotiations on Palestinian self-government within a month of the treaty's signing. Six months later, general elections were to be held on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would set up a functioning Palestinian administrative council...
That same night Begin ordered his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, to fly from Washington to Jerusalem to seek Cabinet support on late developments in the negotiations. This led to speculation that a tentative agreement might be at hand. By that time the draft treaty had been revised at least seven times, and most of the problems had been either solved or sidestepped. Chief among these was the question of "linkage" between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and further negotiations on the West Bank and Gaza. The two sides agreed to discuss the matter both in a preamble to the treaty...