Word: yitzhak
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...begin his climb from the electoral cellar, George Bush needed a fortnight of seamless good fortune: a small triumph of diplomacy with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, James Baker's return to political service, then a smooth glide to Houston for joyous coronation by a united Republican Party. Maybe the convention week will go that way. But in the first half of the Republican fortnight, the President seemed unable to awake from what is turning out to be a nightmarish fight for re-election...
...first concrete action to advance the peace negotiations that began last fall, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made good its promise to slow down settlement activity in the occupied territories by freezing construction of 6,500 planned units (10,000 housing units already under construction will be completed). Baker said that Israel was embarked on a program of "severe and substantial curtailments," greatly improving the chance that Washington will now grant at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Israel has requested to help resettle Russian Jews. The U.S. had pointedly withheld that aid from...
...Middle East but no roiling of American Jewish attitudes, a nonpolicy virtually guaranteed to deliver a normal 30% of the Jewish vote to the G.O.P. But George Bush and Jim Baker were eager to succeed where their predecessors failed, and that meant confrontation -- with U.S. Jews and with Yitzhak Shamir, the intransigent Israeli Prime Minister whose life's mission was retaining the occupied territories. As Bush and Baker fought and beat the Israeli lobby in Washington, they were reviled for encouraging anti-Semitism and were called anti-Semites themselves. They took the heat and prevailed. Today Israel's new government...
Each party has its own agenda and political constraints in approaching the others. Rabin has three immediate priorities, all linked: quick progress with the Palestinians; repairing the damage done to Israel's ties with Washington during the tenure of his predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir; rerouting Israeli shekels from building settlements in the occupied territories to creating jobs and absorbing immigrants...
Washington warmly welcomed new Israeli Prime Minister YITZHAK RABIN's decision last week to call a temporary halt to new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But a major sticking point in U.S.-Israeli relations remains. The White House wants to sell 72 F-15 Eagle bombers to Saudi Arabia. Israel strongly opposes the sale, but McDonnell Douglas and its suppliers have been pressing Bush to let the sale go through. Last week the powerful 800,000- member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers added to the election-year pressure on Bush, insisting that...