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Last week tensions flared between Washington and Jerusalem, based on growing Israeli suspicion that U.S. dependence on Arab oil was shifting American priorities in the Middle East. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan warned in an interview that the Carter Administration was undertaking a review of strategy toward the Palestinians that amounted to not just an erosion but a shift in U.S. policy toward Israel, to Israel's detriment. It was a result, he said, of "American concern about economic and energy problems, concerns about quantities of oil and prices...
...Sunday meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Moshe Dayan lashed out at practically everybody. He strongly criticized the economic policies of his own government-in part, perhaps, because he is trying to fill the political vacuum caused by the illness of Premier Menachem Begin, who is still recuperating from a mild stroke. But he saved the best part of his fire for the U.S., warning it against recognzing the P.L.O. or in any other way strengthening the chances of a wholly independent Palestinian state's develop ing in the West Bank and Gaza...
...were pleased with the letter, but there was no public comment from the Administration; it feared that hard-line elements in the Begin government would counterattack with charges of American manipulation of "Jewish family matters." The Israeli Premier must already contend with the fact that both Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman disagreed with the Cabinet's approval of the settlement that inspired the letter...
...Another cancer victim in the Middle East is Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Last week doctors removed a malignant tumor from his large intestine...
...gazed up at the Cheops pyramid, shopped in the bazaars and once even cried out, "This is one of the happiest days of my life!" In other words, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, 64, behaved like any other tourist on his first trip to Cairo and environs. Visiting, by coincidence, on the twelfth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Dayan was in town with his wife Rachel to talk to Egyptian officials about opening the borders between their two countries. At one point a storeowner proudly showed him a copy of a pharaonic deity. "It's very nice...