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WARRIOR STATESMAN: THE LIFE OF MOSHE DAYAN by Robert Slater (St. Martin's Press; $27.95). Dayan, Israel's most controversial political and military figure, successfully led his country in the 1967 Six-Day War. In the first full-length biography of Dayan, Slater, who is a reporter for TIME's Jerusalem bureau, contends that Dayan's decision to keep Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip led to the hard-line, right-wing policies of the Shamir government...
...Moshe Dayan...
Several years ago, I asked Shamir about the Dayan and Kissinger observations. Both were correct, he said, admitting that his nation's obvious security needs and geography combined with an increasingly conservative politics to support his own heartfelt suspicion of the Arabs in Israel's midst. "But there is more," he added calmly. "You see, I just don't believe in trading land for peace. I mean I don't believe...
...Dayan and Mikhael-Ashrawi also disagreed on the means of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mikhael-Ashrawi stressed the need for international cooperation, saying, "the mechanism for the peace plan is holding an international conference...
...Dayan favored working within Israel's political system, saying that Palestinians had to take responsibility for acquiring their rights rather than wait for the United Nations to get involved...