Word: yitzhak
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Even as tough a character as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir could have been excused for wavering under the pressure last week. Instead of concentrating its ire on Iraq, the U.S. joined in a United Nations condemnation of Israel, intensifying fears that the gulf crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch...
...same province under the control of the Ottoman Turks, they should be rejoined now. For their part, many Likud leaders believe that since the West Bank was ruled by Israelites in biblical times, not one square inch should be traded away as part of an Arab-Israeli settlement. Yitzhak Shamir's talk of "Greater Israel" is as ominous for the prospects of there ever being real and lasting peace in the region as Saddam's militant nostalgia for Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian empire...
After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
ISRAEL. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told visiting U.S. Senator Alan Cranston of California last week, "I am sure that it will be easier to promote peace between Israel and the Arabs after the gulf crisis is over." Shamir did not explain his reasoning, but it is conceivable that Israel could be helped by a squelching of the implacable Saddam and by increased influence for the less hostile Saudis and Egyptians. On the other hand, the U.S. will be under greater pressure than ever from its Arab friends to lean on Israel for a solution to the eternal Palestinian problem...
Farfetched? Not according to Israeli intelligence, which considers it "likely" that Saddam will attempt to lash out at Israel if he is attacked by the U.S. Although Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared last week that Israel "lives in this storm but has no part in it," he has warned his countrymen that they have entered a "period of emergency." In an interview on Israeli television, Shamir said Saddam "wants to involve us in the current confrontation." Defense Minister Moshe Arens concurs: "If somebody in Iraq decides to push a button and launch a ballistic missile, that missile will probably land...