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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Further evidence of the Israeli government's sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Lesson of Elon Moreh | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Jordan. Should the U.S. intervene, or should it give Israel the go-ahead to help King Hussein with attacks against the Syrian invaders? "I have decided it," says Richard Nixon in a dawn phone conversation with Henry Kissinger. "Don't ask anybody else. Tell him [Israel's Yitzhak Rabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...excerpts from his forthcoming memoirs, White House Years. Kissinger muses on the statesman's craft ("Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited"); assesses Charles de Gaulle, the Shah of Iran, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin; and sums up the philosophy that he believes should guide U.S. foreign policy. He concludes with a moving essay on the role of faith in a technocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Jordan, the northern town of Irbid fell. Kissinger called Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin to request Israeli reconnaissance and to raise the possibility of air strikes and ground action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...affected his body's ability to recover from the stroke. "I am concerned about Mr. Begin's health," said Dr. Fein, "but I admire his courage." Begin is now forced to spend far fewer hours in his office than any previous Israeli Premier. For Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, 18-hour days were normal. By contrast, Begin usually arrives at 8:30 in the morning and leaves between 11:30 and noon. He often returns in late afternoon for another hour or so, but since his stroke he has done this less frequently. Aides say that he works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fears for Begin's Health | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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