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...views of the four Israelis at the Sofia meeting have practically nothing to do with mainstream Israeli thinking. Many members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition were furious over the meeting, and one member, Deputy Minister Yoram Aridor, charged that a "grave felony" had taken place. Said one Israeli official: "When a Communist Party member who is loyal to Moscow meets with Arafat, it has no significance except for its public relations value to Arafat...
...refusal to accept Sadat's terms gave the Premier his highest popularity rating in political polls since he took office last year. Nonetheless, the government was under fire from both left and right for lack of foresight and policy. "We are a crazy people," suggested Author Yoram Kaniuk, a critic on the left. "The talks fall through, and Yitzhak Rabin becomes a national hero...
Ehud Olmert and Yoram Avidor are members of the hawkish opposition block, Likud. Olmert, at 29 the youngest Knesset member, belongs to the Free Center party and Avidor, 42, is a member of the somewhat more conservative Cherut party...
Others felt that it was unnecessarily provocative-especially since the chosen line of march went through the Israeli-occupied Old City of Jerusalem. Said Yoram Kaniuk, an Israeli writer and journalist: "Before the Six-Day War there was some justification for showing the Arabs we had muscle. But not now. We are going to look like the Russians with this sort of thing...
Adam, in short, possesses some of the manic gifts that used to be associated with divine madness. Like Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, he sees only absolutes in a world of ostensible reason. Almost singlehanded, he gives gnarled life to this book, the third novel of Israeli Author Yoram Kaniuk...