Word: yitzhak
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There are signs that Israel, hard pressed by the cost of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jewish immigrants, is open to arms-limitation proposals that would help keep down its military outlays, which have already shrunk about 15% in the past three years. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has proposed a regional limitation on "nonconventional" weapons -- presumably meaning chemical and biological -- as a confidence-building measure between Israel and the Arab states. But so long as he gives no sign that Israel would bargain away its nuclear arsenal, Arab nations are unlikely to agree...
Which at the moment seems a monstrous if. In Israel only the left wing would consider anything resembling the Saudi approach, and it has been discredited by Palestinian cheers for the Scud missiles rained on Israel by Iraq during the war. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has no intention of yielding an inch of the occupied territories; he will not even promote his own 1989 plan to hold elections in the territories and then negotiate limited autonomy with the people's choices. If Shamir should falter, he may be brought down by the rightists in the governing Likud coalition who want...
Arab leaders were not alone in suggesting that Saddam could be lured into behaving with more restraint. In the spring of 1984, Teicher accompanied Donald Rumsfeld, then Reagan's special Middle East envoy, on a visit to Israel. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Rumsfeld that Israel considered Iran, not Iraq, to be the greatest threat in the region. According to Teicher, Shamir proposed the construction of an oil pipeline from Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa as a goodwill gesture. When the U.S. relayed the offer to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, he refused to pass it along...
...they have ever been. Yes, the U.S. is committed to pushing extra hard for Israeli flexibility, to pay back Arab governments for their support of the coalition and to cement American credibility in the Arab world. But even Israel's No. 1 patron cannot make Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir budge unless he chooses to. And he does not. "We shall stand firm," says Shamir, against "attempts to establish a new pattern of Middle East arrangements...
Palestinians blame everyone but themselves for their latest setback, failing to acknowledge that the enormous political and financial damage they are suffering is largely self-inflicted. By siding with Saddam, they lost sympathy and support among the allies, both Western and Arab, and handed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir a propaganda windfall. Unless they quickly face up to their mistakes, they will miss a unique opportunity to press their case in postwar negotiations...