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...took her seriously until a week or so ago, when she bluntly told several confidants in the Labor Party that she really is going to step down. One result of this decision has been the intensification of the feud between two of her potential successors: Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 57, and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon...
...unsubtle struggle between the two Cabinet ministers-both of them ex-generals-has mainly centered on security matters and Arab affairs. Dayan has taken a hard line on the prospect of Israel's making peace with Jordan, by repeatedly insisting that the occupied West Bank must remain under Israeli control. The more dovish Allon has argued that a settlement with King Hussein is worth some concessions in sovereignty. Last July, Dayan led the fight against returning two border villages to their dispossessed Christian Arab residents, thereby dooming Allen's plan for repatriation. Following the Munich murder of eleven...
...quarrel extends to matters of considerably less importance. At a recent Cabinet meeting, they clashed over a proposal to put Allon in charge of a seemingly innocuous government information program. Earlier Dayan bridled at the choice of ex-Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev (rather than Dayan himself) to write an article on Israel's military defense for next year's official 25th anniversary album...
...through three armed roadblocks without firing a shot, "borrowed" a radio from a Lebanese officer, captured six Lebanese soldiers, whom he released at the border, and made it home with five fedayeen and one jeep. "Have you ever heard a war story like that?" marveled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan when informed of Shaul's exploits...
Chayes recently went on a two week fact-finding mission for McGovern in Western Europe and Israel, where he said he got "royal treatment." He said the Israelis he talked to--including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan--had none of the apprehensions about McGovern's position on Israel that newspapers report are sending many American Jews to the Nixon camp...