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Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol and his Arab counterparts have one thing in common: they all find Defense Minister Moshe Dayan hard to handle. The eye-patched general, who was brought into the Cabinet over Eshkol's misgivings, thinks the Premier reacted far too slowly to the Arab threats that preceded the six-day war. And Dayan does not care who knows it. Eshkol would like to downplay their differences, at least for the time being, but last week, after Dayan sounded off before a group of Israeli politicians, the Premier felt compelled to answer back. "I am astonished...
...quotes from diplomatic and press dispatches trace the immediate prewar events at yawning length. The narrative of the war itself relies heavily on the turgid reports of field commanders, completely misses the sense of speed and surprise that made the Israeli victory possible, and even manages to make Moshe Dayan sound dull...
Whatever Nasser thought of that idea, Israel would surely reject it out of hand. Once more last week, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan scoffed at the notion of withdrawal from the "new territories" Israel now holds. "There is no going back to the 1948 borders," said Dayan. "We must not allow other countries acting in their own interests to force us to return to the old situation. We need to consider the reality...
...territories make "a very nice map to look at," observes Defense Minister Moshe Dayan with a smile-and with good reason. Far from overextending the Israeli army, the conquered lands have, in fact, shortened Israel's land borders and made them much easier to defend. Israel's new frontier with Jordan runs for 60 miles rather than 180 and, equally important, it runs along the Jordan River rather than through a twisting, tortured no man's land of hills and scrub. The old Negev Desert border stretched a porous 160 miles. With the addition of Sinai, Israel...
...worshipers stayed away, and 24 leading professional, political and religious Arabs of Jerusalem called for a cam paign of noncooperation with Israel. Alarmed, the Israelis canceled censorship of the sermons-and transferred responsibility for dealing with the Moslem religious community from the Israeli Ministry of Religion to Dayan's Defense Ministry, which, not surprisingly, is vastly respected by the Arabs...