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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, unlike his predecessor Menachem Begin, is eager to demonstrate evenhandedness in opposing both Jewish and Arab terrorism. There is good reason to do so. In the past four years, fanatical Jewish activists have launched more than 40 terrorist operations against Arab and Christian homes and institutions in Israel and the West Bank. Among the more spectacular crimes: the attempted assassination of three West Bank Arab mayors in June 1980 and an assault last summer on Hebron's Islamic University in which three Arabs were killed and 33 wounded. Responsibility for the latest West Bank machine...
...most vociferous support for the U.S. bombardment came from Israel. "The shelling is very important," said an Israeli spokesman close to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "They should have done it two weeks or ten days ago. It is the only language the Syrians understand." With much to lose from the fall of the Gemayel government, Israel was quick to argue that any perception of U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon would, in the words of one official, "have catastrophic consequences for the U.S. position in the Middle East...
Both Kohl and his host, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, behaved with great delicacy. Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...
...result of the austerity policies imposed after Yitzhak Shamir succeeded Menachem Begin as Prime Minister last October, Israel's unemployment is also an increasing concern. Cohen-Orgad acknowledges that the fig ure may triple, to 30,000 (2.5%), this year. There has already been widespread la bor unrest. Defense minis try employees have been on a work slowdown for two months. Last week the nation's railroad workers went out on strike, while postal employees caused major disruptions in mail service and all 60,000 of the country's civil servants went on strike for three hours...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...