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...Moshe Dayan...
...deep down, there was also fear, particularly among Israel's leaders, old and new. Observed Interior Minister Yosef Burg, who is also the chief negotiator with the Egyptians in the autonomy talks: "Now we shall find out if a man or an idea was killed." Moshe Dayan, the former Foreign Minister, suggested that Israel must continue to take part in the negotiations but must "check seven times over with seven eyes who is running the new Egypt and how strong is his commitment to peace." Ariel Sharon, Begin's Defense Minister, warned that Israel must keep itself strong...
...when President Jimmy Carter flew to Israel for a last effort to conciliate Egypt and Israel, Dayan--then foreign minister--suggested concessions on Israel's oil demands and on accelerated withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula...
...Dayan's suggestion of concessions was a major reversal of opinion. Prior to Carter's visit, Dayan had often said that Israeli control of Sharm el-Sheik, the strategic point on the southern tip of Sinai peninsula which controls the entrance to the gulf of Arabia, was worth more than a peace treaty with Egypt...
...policies often change, sometimes radically," Dayan once told an Israeli interviewer. "But so do circumstances. I like to think of myself as one of those people who adapt themselves to changing circumstances, who react to the changes, and who sometimes help to create them...