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None of the announced candidates can top Mario Cuomo, who scores a perfect 10 on the Pander Meter. Some highlights: in 1988 Cuomo unsuccessfully advised Michael Dukakis to break with the 30 Democratic U.S. Senators (most of them strong supporters of Israel) who had urged Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to negotiate with the Palestinians. In June 1990 Cuomo praised Shamir for "correctly refusing to offer any guarantees that would limit the settlement" of Soviet Jews "anywhere in Israel." Last month Cuomo derided President Bush's Middle East maneuvers, saying, "I don't believe you should be evenhanded between the people...
Everyone seems to have forgotten what happened in the White House less than two weeks ago. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir traveled to the United States for a meeting with President Bush. Shamir planned to argue his case for locating the next round of peace talks at a site closer to the Middle East...
Bradlee also said that former President Ronald W. Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he had served as a signal core photographer in World War II and is saving the film he took of Nazi death campus to show to anyone who tries to say that the Holocaust did not occur...
...ISRAEL: Yitzhak ("Not One Inch") Shamir is the hard-line leader of a solidly hard-line team. But Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin ("Nightline") Netanyahu, who speaks perfect American, will put the velvet spin on Israel's positions...
Then Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir blew it, big. He has always vowed never to give up an inch of territory, and he did not change that stance; he devoted half of his 34-minute speech to a recitation of the oppression of Jews through centuries and indeed millenniums. There was little in his speech to suggest a willingness to compromise, and he followed up on Friday with a bitter blast at Syria's brutality and tyranny. But Shamir was playing less to world opinion than expressing deep convictions that also work for him politically back home...