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...Israel? Not Golda Meir, 73, the incumbent, who said yet again that she will not be a candidate in the 1973 elections. Not Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 64, who says, "I've been in the Cabinet 15 years; that's more than enough." Not Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, 53, who is ailing and wants to go back to his kibbutz...
...more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community held a memorial march for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last autumn, the sheik...
...Meir, whose rating was 91%. Abba Eban received 78% among Israelis (and 75% among Arabs who approve of his relative dovishness and the fact that he makes radio broadcasts in perfect Arabic). Opposition Leader Menahem Begin received a 66% rating. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon each received 65%; Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir...
...Meir, for the time being at least, appears to have a lock on the Premier's office. She is the first choice for that job of 52% of Israelis. Dayan is a distant runner-up: 20% make him their first choice for Premier and 31% their second choice. Allon got first-choice votes from 8% and second choice from 21%. Political observers note, however, that on the day Premier Levi Eshkol died two years ago, Golda Meir rated poorly in a poll of possible successors...
...Jordan would accept the Allon plan, under which the West Bank will be demilitarized, and Israel would keep a strip of fortified settlements along the Jordan River to safeguard its borders. There would be no separate Palestinian state, but the people of the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship and they would have access to the East Bank by means of a corridor at Jericho between the Israeli border settlements...