Word: israel
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Israel's security chief denies that he quit over a cover...
...personal rhetoric. For the fifth time in 24 hours, the government had issued an outraged denial of an allegation that had the potential for a major political blowup. The object of the Begin government's wrath was a published charge that the chief of the General Security Service, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, had resigned to protest a possible obstruction of the investigation into the attempted assassination last June of three Palestinian mayors in the occupied West Bank...
...allegations were not the first criticism that had been leveled against the government's handling of the bombing investigation, reported TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman. Questions had increasingly been asked in Israel about the fact that no arrests had been made, and the government had been pressed to make public the details of the case. After the new charges, two deputies, including one from Begin's own coalition, called for an inquiry...
...Israel was already at the center of an international storm over the Knesset's passage of a bill the previous week affirming the city of Jersualem as the capital of Israel. In response to that defiant vote, Egypt's Anwar Sadat wrote Begin an 18-page letter in which he laid out a forceful and sweeping denunciation of Israeli actions. Unless Begin "removed the obstacles to peace," Sadat concluded, the Palestinian autonomy talks would once again be put off indefinitely...
...Israel's Muslim neighbors, for whom Jerusalem is also a revered religious shrine, the Knesset action seemed not only insensitive but also contemptuous. Rallying round Egypt, Islamic nations in the U.N. drafted a resolution calling on the Security Council to impose strict sanctions on Israel for flouting international laws concerning Jerusalem...