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Israeli Cabinet Member Ezer Weizman returned from a three-day trip to Cairo last week with a nasty row at home behind him and a handsome trophy before him: a tentative Egyptian commitment for a summit meeting later this spring between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. That diplomatic breakthrough could signal the end of three years of "cold peace" between the two countries. Egypt opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, and following the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut three months later, recalled its ambassador from...
...home, Weizman's trip precipitated an open fight within Israel's seven-month-old National Unity government. Peres had allowed Weizman to accept the Egyptian government's invitation because the former Defense Minister played an important role in the 1979 Camp David peace talks, and is generally thought to be the Egyptians' favorite Israeli politician. To assuage the feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman...
Peres, who had not anticipated an open fight, was surprised when the Cabinet voted 11 to 10 against the Weizman trip, with two ministers abstaining and two absent. Furious, he told a colleague, "One cannot work this way." In effect, Peres gave the Cabinet an ultimatum: if it did not back him on the i'ssue, he would pull his party out of the coalition and try to form a Labor-run government, a threat that has some support among Labor Party members. With the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon almost complete and the state...
Peres resolved the impasse with Shamir by ordering a telephone canvass of the entire Cabinet, and won a vote of 13 to 12 in favor of the Weizman trip, with Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg of the National Religious Party and Minister Without Portfolio Yigal Hurvitz of the Ometz Party casting the deciding votes. The Prime Minister received the good news as he left a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is laying the groundwork for a visit next month by Secretary of State George Shultz...
...through my head as Harvard spokesperson Joe Wrinn denied responsibility for the incident, even though Chen Jia’er was the University’s guest. Here was a Harvard graduate student who had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize the same year as Israeli President Ezer Weizman and Pope John Paul II being denied access to a public meeting because of his persistent calls for a democratic China. The University insisted on looking the other...