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More shocks follow Moshe Dayan 's resignation ''I told the Premier that we are subjecting our people to daily shocks.'' lamented an aide to Menachem Begin. ''and we have gone well beyond their ability to absorb those shocks.'' So it seemed...
...Moshe Dayan had resigned as Foreign Minister in basic disagreement over Israeli policy for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A day later, the country's Supreme Court struck a body blow at the Begin government's policy of permitting Jewish settlements to be established in the West Bank on the pretext that they strengthen Israel's ''security...
Perhaps the only mystery in the Dayan affair was why he remained in the Begin government as long as he did. Dayan had made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with Begin's hard-line policy in dealing with the Palestinians. He genuinely want ed to reach some kind of agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks...
That, like Dayan's resignation, suggested an ominous future...
...Sharon, due in the U.S. this week to argue his cause, postponed his trip after Dayan's resignation...