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...postponement is tactically useful. Since the U.S. began discussions with the P.L.O. last December, Israel has heard little from the Administration's highest reaches. The result has been frantic maneuvering in Jerusalem, movement that may make the next step toward negotiations easier. Rather than react to an American agenda, Yitzhak Shamir's government is being forced to craft its own. "Sometimes," says Baker, "a pro-active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time...
These are the candid, plangent voices of Israel's soldiers, angry reservists confronting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last week in a makeshift encampment outside Nablus, the largest and most turbulent Arab city on the occupied West Bank. Nothing since the 1982 war in Lebanon has eaten into the heart of Israel's most revered institution, the Israel Defense Forces, as the past 14 months of bitter war against children and stones has done. Seemingly impervious to Israel's iron fist, the Palestinian uprising rages on, and that is exacting a price from the I.D.F. measured less in injuries than...
...latest crackdown has renewed the debate among Israelis over the role of the I.D.F. in quelling the rebellion. In the Knesset, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came under withering fire from opposition parties on both the right and left. Hard-liners charged the army was not doing enough. Doves attacked Rabin for the mounting death toll. "This policy is not only killing Palestinians but also the souls of Israeli soldiers," said Yossi Sarid of the left-wing Citizen's Rights Movement. Hecklers finally drove Rabin from the parliamentary chamber...
Mubarak and Hussein see no realistic alternative to strong American activism, since Arafat has made some important concessions on the Arab side but Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains adamant in refusing demands that his country withdraw from the disputed territories. "You have your own connections with the Israelis," Mubarak said. "We are trying hard with the Israelis, but we can't play in the court alone. You should find a way to tackle this problem of how to persuade the Israelis to move forward in the peace process...
...plan calls for deep budget cuts, lower wages and sharply higher prices for food, education and health care. At the same time the shekel has been devalued by 13%. The measures, approved by the Cabinet last week, drew acrimonious opposition from the Histadrut labor federation and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. So vociferous was the army in protesting a proposed $193 million cut in the military budget that Peres ultimately agreed to trim only about $66 million...