Word: yitzhak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, where former Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet...
...Which was chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat. Also on the commission were former Chiefs of Staff Yigael Yadin and Haim Laskov, Supreme Court Judge Moshe Landau and State Comptroller Yitzhak Nebenzahl...
...with a large measure of self-esteem?some critics call it egomania ?Kissinger considers himself a statesman rather than a diplomat. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Chief of Staff, as well as Ambassador to Washington and now Minister of Labor, recalls vividly Kissinger's own definition of the distinction: "The diplomat believes that an international conflict derives from misunderstanding. Therefore he seeks a verbal formula to overcome it. The statesman believes that conflict derives from a difference of interest and confrontation positions. Therefore he tries to change the realities on the ground...
...yesterday's executive council meeting, Meir announced the formation of a new minority cabinet, with Yitzhak Rabin, former ambassador to Washington, replacing Dayan as defense minister...
...from Tel Aviv suggesting that the hero of the Suez crossing had himself disobeyed orders and erred by pushing westward to Cairo too quickly, rather than widening the bridgehead to the north and south. Sharon became convinced that he was being sabotaged by his superiors when Labor Union Secretary Yitzhak Ben-Aharon called the general "a nobody trying to build up a career...