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...many observers, the radicalization of the West Bank was the inevitable result of events external to Israel and the occupied territories. Primarily the increasing acceptance of the PLO by the international community and the violent rift between the PLO and Hussein But many others, including Halabi, assign a major share of the responsibility for the PLO's increased control to the Israeli government Not by design, but through shortsightedness, arrogance and insensitivity the Israeli military administration has alienated and undermined the effectiveness of moderates in the West Bank, leaving the PLO without competition for the people's loyalty This...
...rift in what had been a relatively smooth relationship between Israel and Egypt since Sadat's death hardly helped to quell anxieties as Israel prepared to relinquish the last part of the Sinai on April 25. Hints by Israel that it might attack P.L.O. strongholds in southern Lebanon were also deeply worrying. To urge restraint on all parties, Washington dispatched Special Envoy Philip Habib to the region once again...
Brandeis could also assert his power directly. Murphy unearths a rift that developed early in the New Deal. The Brain Trust, composed of Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle,posed attacking the Depression with big Government and monopolistic enterprises. This ran contrary to the Brandeis )ias against a strong central Government, Big Business in general, and many of the New Deal's collectivist approaches. "Bigness is always badness," became his familiar refrain. At one point, he threatened "to hold the Government control legislation unconstitutional from now on," unless the Administration reversed the Big Business trend in industry...
Despite a show of unity in Madrid, the rift over sanctions runs deep...
Haig had come to Brussels determined to prevent an open rift between the U.S. and allies like West Germany, whose initial responses to martial law had been far milder than Washington's. Over and over, Haig warned that NATO must "prevent the failure in the East from becoming a failure of the West." In the end, the allies closed ranks around a compromise that stopped short of adopting U.S.-style sanctions but prepared the way for future punitive action...