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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...
...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...
...conduct in 1961 was far more dangerous than whatever he had or had not done in 1954. At stake was Ben-Gurion's plan to bypass aging party chieftains such as Lavon and hand over power one day to Mapai's bright young men, headed by Moshe Dayan, 45, the one-eyed general who was army chief in 1954 and is now Minister of Agriculture and Ben-Gurion's chosen political heir. By suddenly resigning, Ben-Gurion in effect forced the party to choose between himself and Lavon...