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...anger that was directed at the U.S. as well as the U.N. A foreign ministry statement said that Israel "categorically rejects the resolution," which it termed not only unjust but further "proof that the U.N. has been turned into an instrument of Israel's enemies." Then Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir summoned U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis to express Israel's "disappointment" over U.S. failure to veto the resolution...
...survived. But, as one Cabinet member acknowledged, "the margin is getting narrower and narrower." The next challenge will probably come this fall, after the Knesset's summer recess. If Begin cannot return to work, the most likely candidate to replace him would be his current Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a longtime ally. But the hawkish Shamir, who favors expansion of the controversial Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, might not be able to commmand enough support to form a government...
Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has even likened the emigration to desertion from the army. Other critics contend that those going to the U.S. are motivated by the most crass materialism. One comment in the Jerusalem Post last week was typical: "They want to be lulled into nirvana by the hum of a six-cylinder auto engine, the whir of a food processor and the strains of an expensive stereo. They want to come home from work and be pampered, to make a lot of money and stop caring...
Nothing demonstrated that so much as the futility of Begin's attempts to replace Weizman in the Israeli Cabinet's second most important and sensitive post. He first asked Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to move over to Defense. The hawkish Shamir, 64, a Polish emigrant like Begin, was Speaker of the Knesset before replacing Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister two months ago. To replace Shamir, Begin tapped Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, 55, a leader of the Liberal Party, which together with Herut forms the backbone of the Likud governing coalition. Both men abstained on the Knesset...
...P.L.O. would continue its terrorist struggle against Israel. Many Palestinians answer that such terrorism-minded freedom fighters as Begin (leader of the Irgun) and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir (a member of the Stern Gang) gave up guns for politics after Israel became independent. Why, they ask, should not Arafat do the same? True, weapons could be smuggled into the West Bank by irredentist radicals and used against Israeli border settlements. Perhaps the most effective deterrent would be the Palestinians' knowledge that such activity would lead to a swift Israeli response, as it has in southern Lebanon...