Word: yitzhak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, not by using stronger language but by breaking one of the oldest taboos in Washington's patron relationship with Jerusalem; it used money as a cudgel. After two fruitless days in Jerusalem, Secretary of State James Baker made clear that Washington did not intend to grant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that the U.S. would not grant the Israelis any loan guarantees unless Jerusalem agreed to freeze settlement in the occupied West Bank, Golan Heights...
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a war can make. Before the allied bombing of Iraq began, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seemed destined never to win any popularity contests. Devoid of charisma, stubborn and introverted, the Prime Minister often provoked yawns in Israel and a feeling of anxiety in Washington...
...face of it, the request seemed reasonable enough -- especially since the friend doing the asking was also the friend destined to be doing the giving. But last week when President Bush, anxious to keep the Middle East peace process on track, asked Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to delay his request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to help with the settlement of Soviet Jewish emigres, Shamir responded with a belligerent no. Americans, Shamir insisted, "are obliged, from a moral point of view, to give Israel this aid." Moreover, he lectured, "humanitarian aid" should not be mixed up with political...
Bush and Baker traveled to Moscow with every intention of bringing Israel to the table. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria had already accepted Israel's long-standing demand for bilateral talks. But Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had one last concern: the composition of the Palestinian delegation to the meetings. Israel rejects any participation in the talks by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. It also opposes the inclusion of any resident of East Jerusalem, a step that in Shamir's view might imply that the city's status as Israel's capital is open to negotiation...
...pressure is now on Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He balked at U.S. efforts early last year, but since then the Arabs have come a long way toward meeting Israeli preconditions. The conference would be sponsored not by the United Nations but by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It would convene once, then break up into four groups for direct negotiations among Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states...