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...last week, members of the Begin government systematically attacked the Reagan peace proposals. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who had opposed the Camp David agreements, said that Washington had "markedly deviated from Camp David in almost each and every clause of its new plan." He told the Knesset that the Reagan initiative was "an attempt to bend and subjugate Israel" and that the U.S. was "no longer an honest broker" because it had chosen to side with the Arabs. Other Israeli officials objected to the linking of Jordan's King Hussein to the future of the occupied territories. As a Begin...
...Israelis with committing acts of cruelty. A prime case in point was the photograph of a badly burned baby who United Press International said had been the victim of an accidental Israeli bomb drop in East Beirut. President Reagan cited the picture in his talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir as an example of why Jerusalem had to stop the bombing of the city. In their defense the Israelis claim that no bomb had fallen in East Beirut and that the child, in truth, had been hit by a P.L.O. shell. Although the U.P.I, stood by the accuracy...
Ronald Reagan made a point of not smiling when he took his seat in the White House Cabinet Room across from Yitzhak Shamir. The studied gesture was designed to reinforce the stern words he coldly read to Israel's Foreign Minister. An Israeli attack against the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas in West Beirut ran the risk of threatening the special relationship between Washington and Jerusalem...
Israeli officials were guarded in their response, and Foreign Minister Yitzhak...
...Begin government would like to see a new and neutralized Lebanon emerge from the rubble: a country with no P.L.O., no Syrians, no internecine fighting and no quarrel with Israel. As Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir put it in an Israeli radio interview, "It is our wish to make peace with a Lebanese government that wants to make peace with us, and that would be capable of doing so. And this will happen as soon as it no longer faces pressure and threats from foreign elements that endanger Lebanese interests...