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...electorate's apparent swing to the right weakened the left wing of the alignment's chances of displacing Meir. While the major spokesman for a conciliatory peace policy, Pinchas Sapir and Yigal Allon, are held in high esteem by the general public, their policies simply are not. Most Israelis realize that security cannot be measured by the distance of the frontier from Tel Aviv, but at the same time they fear that territorial advantages such as the Golan Heights will be traded for unreliable promises. Polls have shown that the majority of Israelis still believe that the Arabs' ultimate...
This movement has been reflected in the Israeli policy toward giving up the occupied territories--chiefly meaning the west bank of the Jordan--as part of a comprehensive peace agreement. Walzer said Meir told the group that the so-called Allon Plan was now official Tel Aviv policy; previously it had been considered a somewhat dovish alternative...
...Allon Plan is named after Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon, who proposed it shortly after the 1967 war. The plan provides for Israeli surrender back to Jordan of all of the west bank except for a chain of fortified outposts along the Jordan River, with a corridor between the two ends of the pincer-like line of Israeli positions. The corridor would be gradually widened by Israeli withdrawals if peace then continued to prevail...
Last week a special meeting of the Labor Party central committee gave Premier Golda Meir an overwhelming vote of confidence, but the 18-hour marathon session betrayed some of the di visions plaguing the country. No sooner had the meeting begun than Deputy Premier Yigal Allon demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued...
...Gamasi were stiff and precise. They spoke in English with Siilasvuo but not to each other. They signed three English copies of the Kissinger agreement and then adjourned. Scarcely 24 hours later, the truce came close to being shattered. The trouble was, as Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told a television audience, that the agreement was "a typical Kissinger document. Each side can find [in it] whatever it wishes...