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DAMASCUS, Syria--Hard-line Israeli and Arab leaders solidified their positions yesterday in preparation for next week's Mideast peace conference. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announced he would lead the Israeli negotiating team, and Syria sought Arab consensus to block any separate peace accords with the Jewish state...
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir stunned Israeli politicians by announcing that he will head his delegation at the Madrid talks, indicating he wanted to make sure his hard-line views would dominate Israel's positions...
...houses and apartment buildings in Arab East Jerusalem to send the government a message that no retreat would be tolerated from the occupied lands, particularly the Holy City. If that position makes it more difficult to convene a peace conference -- well, said some far-right members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud-led coalition, so much the better. The government, however, branded the move a "mistake," removed the settlers from five of the houses, and shuffled the dispute over to the Attorney General's office...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is also dead set against conceding one square inch of the West Bank. Inaugurating a new settlement last week, he vowed that "all our territories that can be built on will be populated by Jews to the end of the horizon." But at least Shamir is motivated by a sense of what he believes to be the historical birthright of his people...
...historian Isaiah Berlin is reported to have said that Yitzhak Shamir is like a wall and that while walls have uses, being talked to is not one of them. Listening to Shamir, however, is revelatory. For in common with several other world leaders (Saddam Hussein comes quickly to mind), the Israeli Prime Minister has always said exactly what he thinks and more often than not has done exactly what he has said he was going...