Word: dayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF THE SINAI CAMPAIGN by Major General Moshe Dayan. 236 pages. Harper...
...eyed Moshe Dayan's gravestone will read THE HELL YOU SAY. He has more than one man's share of that tough, nose-thumbing certitude that makes the sabra (native-born Israeli) so exasperating, yet so fascinating. An unorthodox military genius who lost the illusions of childhood at twelve, when he took up a gun against Arab marauders in the Negev, Dayan in this book is thumbing his nose again. Only this time, it is not at the Arab world but at some of his own people...
Poison on the Wounds. In his lean and brisk account of the 1956 war, Dayan discusses tactical errors made by his own army and dissects them so frankly that many Israelis are clamoring for his other eye. Typical is the claim, of former Foreign Minister Golda Meir, that Dayan's book drips "poison on the open wounds of bereaved parents" by telling them that their sons were often killed because of Israeli mistakes. If anything, such complaints are a disservice to the man who conceived and executed a brilliant military adventure of such power and daring that the memory...
...Gurion thereupon, in the interests of securing "justice" for Lavon, broke with Mapai, taking with him a handful of younger politicians including Agriculture Minister Moshe Dayan, 50, and Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 42-and wound up naming a complete, 120-man list of candidates for the Knesset. Furious, Eshkol has fought back with the full force of the Mapai organization and with scathing newspaper advertisements that denounce "the old man at Sde Boker" as the prophet who, in the Talmudic phrase, "prophesied and knew not whereof he prophesied...
...Palestinian Arabs called El Ard (the Land). Members of El Ard act as guides for Asifa raiders, supply military intelligence and provide hideouts. Though few in numbers, Asifa could succeed in plunging the Arab world into a probably disastrous war with Israel. The former Israeli military commander, General Moshe Dayan, is one of those urging his nation to launch a preventive attack while the Arab states are torn by dissension and 50,000 Egyptian troops tied down in the Yemen civil...