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Even before the report was issued, Dayan had been under attack by a covey of critics that included disgruntled veterans, Israeli doves and even members of his own Labor Party faction, who questioned his leadership. The commission's apparent whitewash of Dayan stirred fresh and damning attacks on the Defense Minister from within the government, principally from a left-wing Labor faction led by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. Allon's supporters and the far-left Mapam faction threatened to bring down the government by voting against it if Dayan was not removed. Dayan's own Rafi faction...
...Likud last week successfully demanded a special session of the Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
...Dayan, who until last week nurtured hopes of becoming Premier himself one day, refused to resign. That left Mrs. Meir with two choices: to beat back the Likud no-confidence vote or to resign herself. Realizing that she was likely to lose a Knesset vote, she opted to replace the debate on her government's performance with a speech of resignation. "I only regret," she told party leaders before her Knesset appearance, "that I have to bring down the government with me." She will head a caretaker government until a new Premier is installed or another election is called...
...Dayan dilemma, Mrs. Meir later confided to intimates, gave her an excuse to quit a job that she never wanted in the first place. "Even had Dayan told me that he was quitting, I would have resigned," she insisted. Indeed, even if the Dayan issue had never arisen, Mrs. Meir would likely have been pressured out of a post that she perhaps had held too long...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan issued an even stiffer warning. He said: "If the Lebanese government allows terrorist headquarters to enjoy their freedom in Beirut and at night they cross into Israel, I think a good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted." Lebanese Premier Takieddin Solh denied that his country was responsible. Mrs. Meir's government also came under fire from some Israeli newspapers, which charged that inadequate security arrangements had allowed the commandos to carry out their raid. At funeral services for the dead, Mrs. Meir's personal representative, Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel, was drowned...