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Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz once boasted that "Israel is respected as an ally who is dependable, strong and who can win." In 1970, for instance, the U.S. asked Israel to mobilize troops to protect the Jordanian army from Syria. Israel readily compiled--even though it was officially at war with Jordan at the time. But the U.S. no longer needs Israel to "win" anything. When the Gulf War is over, America will rely on U.N. peacekeeping forces--not Israeli troops--to maintain stability in the Middle East...
...citizens fulfills the Zionist dream. "Israel faces the threat of war, tourists have stopped coming, the U.S. Administration is less and less friendly," says former refusenik Natan Sharansky. "And yet we see hundreds of Soviet Jews arriving every day because they have no other place to go." Adds Simcha Dinitz, chairman of the quasi- governmental Jewish Agency responsible for bringing the newcomers to Israel: "Though we are saving a million Jews, they are also saving...
...raised immediate objections to the new policy. "People should not be forced to go to a country they don't want to live in," said an American diplomat in Moscow. Retorted World Zionist Organization Head Simcha Dinitz: "Israel is not a travel agent...
...Begin's limited autonomy policy, which could conceivably be nudged toward a broader form of political self-expression for local Arabs but could never embrace the idea of a Palestinian state-militant or otherwise. "The next public debate in Israel," said former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz last week, "will not be over the possibility of annexing the West Bank or establishing a Palestinian state, but over reconciling Israel's wish for secure and recognizable boundaries with the interests of the Palestinians." That, indeed, has been the crux of the Middle East problem since 1948. Tanks...
While I was engaged with the Agnew resignation, Dinitz informed Major General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks...