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...Hebrew University of Jerusalem bestowed Summers with an honorary doctorate when he spoke there on Dec. 19. In a telephone interview yesterday, Menachem Magidor, president of the university, said the school had chosen to honor Summers for his academic achievements as well as “his very, very strong statements against any kind of anti-Semitism...
Looking For Allies ISRAEL Two of the Middle East's oldest enemies, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, found a rare bit of common ground last week. It came when Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to indict Sharon and his son Gilad, despite prosecutors' recommendation that the Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal...
...controversial 1982 Lebanon War, Mitzna wrote to his chiefs demanding the dismissal of then-Defense Minister Sharon. As commander in the West Bank, he left his job two years into the first intifadeh, saying he'd had enough. To left-wingers, those are admirable stands. Yet then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin persuaded Mitzna to withdraw the Lebanon dismissal letter, and people close to him say he quit the West Bank job because he was just tired of criticism from the left and right. Labor rival Haim Ramon says Mitzna is all "bullshit and baloney." Mitzna left the army...
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday - 24 years late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
...Scud launchings. These plans are crucial to protecting Israel against the threat of Iraq but the administration must also recognize that Israel still has the unquestionable right to respond to outside threats. Americans should remember that Israel, in an act of self-preservation, saved innumerable lives when Prime Minister Menachem Begin launched an air strike called Operation Babylon against an Iraqi nuclear plant in June 1981. The U.S., which condemned Operation Babylon when it occurred, reversed course after the Gulf War and praised Israel for its forward-looking action. Luckily for the U.S., Israel did not rely on American promises...