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...rising chorus of dissent and reassessment is being heard, even from those known for their enduring commitment to Israel. Last week it came from the most unlikely voice of all. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the principal pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S., warned Acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that his government's covert sponsorship of a Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem was seriously threatening U.S.-Israeli relations, and might even lead American Jews to cut back their financial support of Israel...
...Israel," replied Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, "will also know how to defend itself in the future and defeat the evil designs of its enemies." What Shamir did not say, but what everyone knows, is that Israel already has its own nuclear warheads as well as its own missiles...
...Likud's Yitzhak Shamir believes that Israel should include the West Bank captured from the Arabs in 1967 -- and still heavily populated by Arabs in 1990. Labor's Shimon Peres believes in trading land for peace. The territory traded would become part of a Palestinian "entity," a cryptogram that many predict will someday be decoded to mean a Palestinian state. While opposing that particular outcome, Labor is at least willing to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and see where the process leads. Likud seems not to be, which is why Shamir did everything he could as Prime Minister to delay...
Saddam's outburst set off alarms in Jerusalem. "Let there be no doubt," responded Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, "Israel will also know how to defend itself in the future and defeat the evil designs of its enemies." White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the Bush Administration found Saddam's remarks "deplorable and irresponsible." Fitzwater called for concrete steps "to rid the region of chemical and other conventional weapons and to move toward peace...
...must not take his threats lightly," warns former Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yet Israelis are acutely aware that they lack the surgical options that made the 1981 Osirak strike possible. Iraq has dispersed its most sensitive weapons facilities in heavily reinforced sanctuaries. It has also strengthened air defenses and developed missiles capable of reaching Israeli targets...