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...reasoned and pragmatic tone, inviting the Palestinian negotiators for an informal parley before the next formal session in Rome, in a month or two, and pledging to bargain continuously until agreement is reached. "Rabin believes that the expectations the Israeli public has of him are very high," says Gad Yaacobi, designated to become Israel's next U.N. ambassador. "He would like to fulfill them early on in his term so as not to erode his political capital." In a more concrete vein, Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer announced that the government was for the moment freezing all public housing starts...
Israeli political leaders are beginning to learn a different lesson, best expressed by Minister of Economics Gad Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...
There was an equally strong response from some Israeli politicians. Declared Minister for Economics and Planning Gad Yaacobi: "We don't need new (economic) doctrines from Washington. We don't need preaching, messages or 'talking papers.' " Peres, however, read Shultz's admonishments in a different light. "The Secretary compliments this government," he told an Israeli radio audience, "but he also gives us a statistical warning bell. He says that if you don't do more, and do more quickly, you face a serious, immediate and urgent economic problem...
...package, half in loans, into an outright grant of $ 1.4 billion. But Israelis are getting increasingly concerned that such financial dependence could compromise their sovereignty. Israeli Finance Ministry officials, for example, meet frequently with U.S. Government officials to discuss their economic problems. "We are losing our independence," complains Gad Yaacobi, a Labor member of the Knesset...
...confidence motion, and so did two small parties of the far left and far right. During the noisy Knesset debate, Begin's handling of the economy came under attack again and again. "The government is like an unmanned space ship with no objective and no map," groused Gad Yaacobi, the Labor Party's chief economic spokesman. Weizman said he voted against his own party to pre serve the Camp David accords, since many Israelis were blaming their econom ic woes on the return of the Sinai oil fields to Egyptian sovereignty. Said...