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...said Israel's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, last week as his government completed the most controversial prisoner exchange in the country's history. The swap was lopsided: 1,150 Palestinians and Lebanese, including scores of convicted terrorists, for three Israeli prisoners of war captured in Lebanon in 1982. It involved complex arrangements, took almost 24 hours to accomplish, and spanned half a dozen cities and towns in the Middle East and Western Europe. And it occurred only shortly before Israel's national unity government, headed by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, quietly began withdrawing the last army units from Lebanon, thereby...
...Israelis who have been convicted of terrorism or who are charged with being members of a Jewish extremist group. The settlers' efforts were supported by leading figures in the Likud bloc, a partner with Peres' Labor Party in the national unity government. The Likud's leader, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in a radio interview that he favored the release of the Israeli extremists "if only they publicly express their remorse at what they have done or intended to do." Even more adamant was another powerful Likud member, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, the former Defense Minister who planned...
...danced in the streets, showering Lebanese soldiers with rice and flowers as they moved in. The pullback was a Syrian success of sorts--Syrian forces are remaining in Lebanon--but Damascus so far has refrained from moving its units into the territory abandoned by Israel. Said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he watched the pullback: "I hope the Syrians understand we have certain limits, and we will not be able to stay on the sidelines if they exceed them." Earlier in the week the Israeli Cabinet had voted to complete the three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon by early June...
...DIED. Yitzhak Kahan, 72, former justice and president (1977-83) of Israel's Supreme Court, known for his broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the soldiers ordered the settlers to leave. Said Otniel Schneller, the West Bank Settlement Council director: "We decided to move out because we didn't want to clash with the army. But we will return...