Shamir: This Is a New Form of Warfare

< On the day Israel deported eight Palestinians to Lebanon, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir met with TIME Managing Editor Henry Muller, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, Chief of Correspondents John Stacks, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Johanna McGeary and Reporter Robert Slater. Excerpts:

Q. The situation here seems to have changed since December.

A. What has changed? Nothing has changed. You mean the disturbances? I think they will come to an end. We are used to Arab acts against Israel. We have a long history of that, and they have always failed and they will fail in this too.

Q. You don't see anything...

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