Word: yitzhak
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Although 40 planes over a year's time was mentioned as a schedule, the actual negotiations for delivery will not take place until Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin returns to Washington this week. Obvious but unmentioned is the U.S. intention to tie the flow of shipments to Israeli cooperation at the negotiating table. If Israel becomes recalcitrant again, the Phantoms may suddenly stop coming...
...additional armaments not so much to bolster the Egyptians as to panic Israel into trying to wheedle additional arms out of the U.S., thereby throwing both the arms balance and the American peace effort out of kilter. Sure enough, in the wake of the treaty, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin last week inquired into the status of an Israeli request for an additional $500 million in economic aid and military supplies. Washington has so far held back on approving the request. With some justification, Jerusalem fears that the U.S. might use aid as a lever to push Israel into...
...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...
Excellent Record. After hearing that evidence, the Israeli Cabinet immediately dispatched back to Washington Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, who had been recalled to Jerusalem only three days before. He carried in his attache case a complete set of the photographs and other evidence. The next day, Rabin personally handed the material to Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco. Back in Jerusalem, Dayan put pressure on the U.S. Speaking to the Knesset, he publicly charged Egypt and Russia with the cease-fire violation. Dayan saved some of the sternest parts of his speech for the U.S. "We see the Americans as more...
Another Rogers caller was Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, who was particularly worried that a limited ceasefire might give Egypt an opportunity to move Russian missiles up to the Suez Canal. In Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed similar concern, arguing that a temporary cease-fire "would be a certificate for the resumption of hostilities on a fixed date. It would be only a phase of war, whereas a permanent cease-fire would be a transition for peace...