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...past, but last week his coalition suffered the unexpected defections of two members from the small party called the Democratic Movement. That left the Prime Minister with a majority of only three seats in the 120-member Knesset. Two of those votes belong to his former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and his recently resigned Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Both men might well vote for early elections. In a speech to Haifa University graduates last week, Dayan declared, "The time has come for us to send the ball back into the people's court and have them decide whom they...
Both Gush and Kach denied responsibility for last week's attempted assassinations but they did not decry them. Said Kach Spokesman Yossi Dayan: "We warned these mayors that they had to leave Eretz Israel. If they had listened to us, they would be able to walk today...
...Begin's attempts to replace Weizman in the Israeli Cabinet's second most important and sensitive post. He first asked Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to move over to Defense. The hawkish Shamir, 64, a Polish emigrant like Begin, was Speaker of the Knesset before replacing Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister two months ago. To replace Shamir, Begin tapped Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, 55, a leader of the Liberal Party, which together with Herut forms the backbone of the Likud governing coalition. Both men abstained on the Knesset vote ratifying the Camp David accords...
...Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, who is now secretary-general of the opposition Labor Party, argued in the Knesset last week that the Hebron attack would never have occurred if Begin's government had removed the Hadassah-clinic squatters as he had promised. Former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, in a television interview, charged that "some of the activities of the new settlers" had played a major role in the West Bank disturbances...
Begin's critics charge that his goverment is engaged in a policy of "creeping annexation." Indeed, Gush Emunim members believe that the government should formally incorporate the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as integral parts of Israel. Moshe Dayan resigned as Foreign Minister last fall in part because he was convinced that Begin's ultimate goal was to demand full sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the five-year interim period. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban argued that the settlements "squander the nation's resources...