Word: dayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab countries or imprisoned. As the war of terror has intensified, so have Israeli reprisals. When an Israeli soldier was killed by a terrorist hand grenade in the village of Halhoul in occupied Jordanian territory last month, Israelis decided to hold the community responsible. Acting under Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's new concept of "neighborhood punishment," they dynamited 18 dwellings and relocated their inhabitants...
Nowhere else has the debate over neighborhood punishment become as heated as in Israel, where it triggered a Cabinet crisis that nearly cost Dayan his job. Fearful of losing public support in the U.S. and Europe, many Israelis questioned the wisdom and morality of fighting terror with terror. Dayan's opponents in the Israeli Cabinet seized on the issue to attack the Defense Minister...
...Cabinet meeting that lasted six hours, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Minister without Portfolio Pinhas Sapir used the punishment issue as a springboard for an attack on Dayan's entire policy for dealing with the occupied territories. They criticized his plans for combining the economies of the occupied areas with that of Israel. They also scored his plans to settle Israelis in strategic areas, such as the Golan Heights, and his quasi-annexation of occupied territory through the gradual spread of Israeli law. Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Dayan's chief rival for eventual premiership, joined in the attack...
...Israelis matched Nasser mood for mood. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan urged that Israel ought to take action in the Lebanese crisis. "We have a right to play a role," he told colleagues privately, implying that Israel should not allow the guerrillas to gain an upper hand in Lebanon. "We are the only power in the Mediterranean that can. Let's not play games. We must decide whom to help and then use our forces to change the political picture...
John Huston, one formerly to whom much honor was due, filmed this woeful tale and even subjected his own daughter to it. Dale Wasserman set it down in words taken by Hans Koningsberger from his own novel, perhaps with a broadsword. Moshe Dayan's son traveled all the way from Israel to take part. These all have conspired together to produce this thing, and all must share equally in the blame. There is, truly, more than sufficient for each...