Word: yitzhak
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...short term, she is awaiting elections--both Israeli and Palestinian. The war, Dina says, may finish the political careers of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the rightwing Likud Party, and Palestinian Liberation Organization chair Yasser Arafat, now being questioned by many Palestinians for his handling of the Gulf Crisis. A change in leadership, she says, could bring relief to the Palestinian people...
ISRAEL Confidence is the basis of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's intransigence. Israel has the lands the Arabs want back -- the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights -- and does not anticipate being forced to return them. Only a defeat in war would bring that about, and who would deliver it? Iraq, previously Israel's fiercest enemy, has been neutered. Syria can no longer rely on now impoverished Moscow to bankroll its military machine, which runs on Soviet technology that was shown to be inferior in the gulf war. Egypt, which made a separate peace with Israel...
...March 5, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said, "We are ready to talk to any and every Arab country about peace without any preconditions." He reaffirmed that Israel stands by its two-track peace plan of May 1989, which would lead to autonomy for Palestinians in the occupied territories...
Heretics Nos. 2 and 3 are high-ranking Israelis. Speaking in Washington, Health Minister Ehud Olmert, a confidant of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, proclaimed Israel to be ready for negotiations with Syria that could include even "the territorial demands of the Syrians." At a farewell news conference in Tel Aviv, Dan Shomron, who retires in April as Israel's Chief of Staff, remarked cryptically that as part of a possible "political agreement ((that)) involves demilitarizations, arms limitations" and other items, "one can speak about risk vs. territory...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir cannot pay anything more than lip service even to his own 1989 plan for elections to choose Palestinian leaders, who would negotiate some form of limited autonomy. Otherwise his government might well be toppled by rightist members who want to annex the territories outright. The Labor Party, which accepts the idea of land for peace, has never had less popular support. So new elections might well return a government even further to the right than the present Likud-led coalition...