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...analyst sentenced this year by a U.S. court to life imprisonment as an Israeli spy. But the panel declined to single out any individual for culpability. A second investigation, conducted by a parliamentary intelligence subcommittee headed by former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, then pinned blame squarely on Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Peres, who received particular criticism for mishandling the case as Prime Minister in 1985 when Pollard was arrested, stated, "I have nothing to apologize for." U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering quickly made clear that Washington expects those involved...
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' Labor Party failed last week to muster enough votes in the 120-seat Knesset to force Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to call early elections. As a result, Peres was thwarted, at least for the moment, in his drive to convene an international peace conference on the Middle East...
...months it has been billed as a national unity coalition, but the two wings of the Jerusalem government last week displayed little evidence of anything approaching harmony. "Perverse and criminal!" cried Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' proposal to convene an international peace conference in the region. Peres, the leader of the Labor Party, retaliated by accusing his coalition partner of "character assassination...
Israel's national unity government appeared to work smoothly enough in its first 31 months. But by last week its two leaders, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, seemed increasingly destined to tangle in a bitter clash of wills. The reason: Peres wants Israel to cooperate with Jordan, the U.S. and probably Egypt in the convening of an international peace conference on the Middle East, but Shamir is dead set against the idea. When Peres left on a trip to Western Europe to pursue the plan, Shamir declared testily, "I hope he fails." Last week the Prime...
...mark the occasion, Arafat's followers in southern Lebanon launched a series of rocket attacks and a small guerrilla operation against northern Israel. In response, Israeli planes staged strikes against P.L.O. positions in Lebanon. The Israelis were also engaged in a heated debate last week, with Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a Labor Party leader, calling for a territorial compromise over the occupied West Bank and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir repeating the Likud bloc's position that Israel will never make territorial concessions for peace...