Word: dayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck by his good humor. "How do I manage to keep my temper?" said the Premier in response to a question. "If I were in America, I would have a psychiatrist to explain it. Don't all Americans have psychiatrists?" Shenker also interviewed the new Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, who showed him a treasury of archaeological finds he has unearthed himself. Shenker collects jokes much as Dayan collects ancient pottery, and he obtained at least one specimen. "They say," remarked the new Minister, "that it took 80,000 Egyptian soldiers to get me into the government...
...Green Berets near Pleiku, then hopped aboard a helicopter to participate in a 1st Cavalry airborne assault landing. "He moves like a worm in hot ashes," said an admiring U.S. officer, but that came as no news to the folks at home. The newsman was eye-patched Moshe Dayan, Israel's former chief of staff come to a war as a correspondent for a Tel Aviv paper. And as one soldier to another, he liked what he saw. "The American soldier is first class," he observed. "I was especially impressed with the young boys seeing war for the first...
...decision to act against Egypt came from Ben-Gurion, who had been informed of the Anglo-French plans to wrest the Suez Canal from Nasser. Responsibility for plans and operations was handed to Major General Dayan, who at 38 had been named Israel's Army Chief of Staff in 1953. Nasser had the bigger, better equipped force. To achieve surprise, Dayan delayed general mobilization until the last possible moment before his attack. Then, on Oct. 29, he dropped 395 paratroopers from 16 lumbering Dakotas near the Mitla Pass, only 45 miles from Suez. The first 100 hours...
Jumpy Gunners. As Dayan points out, the victory was all the more impressive in view of the delays and confusion that resulted from the sudden mobilization. The confusion, moreover, at times resulted in tragedy-the details of which Dayan's critics would as soon leave undocumented. Israeli tanks, for example, were unmarked, and were fired upon by Israeli gunners. In one murderous engagement, the Israelis knocked out eight of their own tanks in five minutes...
...political events superseded military victory. The same international pressures that ultimately led to the fall of Anthony Eden's government forced the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Nevertheless, Dayan and his fellow Israelis believe that the Sinai escapade convinced Nasser of the "readiness of Israel to take to the sword to secure her rights, and the capacity of her army to defeat" a numerically superior and better armed enemy...