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Last week Reagan told Israeli President Yitzhak Navon that Israel's West Bank settlements are "not helpful" to the peace process. In private, U.S. diplomats are more direct. Says a senior Administration official: "The President has a choice. He can tell the Israelis that they must stop the settlements or it will cost them dearly. Or he can watch his peace initiative get buried by Israeli bulldozers...
...Year's message to the Israeli people, he wished them "a boring year of peace." But for Yitzhak Navon, Israel's President, 1983 may be anything but boring or peaceful. Navon, 61, is being touted as a strong candidate who could unite the divided Labor Party to challenge Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Likud coalition should Begin call new elections this year...
...public comment, thereby drawing a rebuke from the Jerusalem Post. The paper regretted that Begin, "whose sensitivity to anti-Semitism and communal animosity is well known, should choose to remain silent." Once again, as in the aftermath of the Beirut massacre last September, it was left to President Yitzhak Navon to address the nation's conscience. Navon, a Sephardic Jew, called for an investigation and at the same time denounced the "criminal exploitation" of the tragedy...
Obsessed as he is with the righteousness of his cause, Begin did not see it that way. In September, when Israelis learned about the massacre by Lebanese Christians of an estimated 800 Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps, they reacted with anger and astonishment. Political leaders, including President Yitzhak Navon, demanded a formal investigation of the role that the Israeli army had played in allowing the Christian militiamen into the camps. In Tel Aviv, a mass rally of 400,000 Israelis, an extraordinarily large crowd for so small a country, protested Begin's refusal to launch an official inquiry...
...proposed $2.5 billion in U.S. economic and military aid to Israel in 1983. Fearing that such an in crease in aid would signal that the U.S. was unable, or unwilling, to exercise any pressure on Israel, the White House lobbied hard against the proposal. Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said last week that this White House action, which he labeled an "unfriendly act," would be "detrimental to Mideast peace...