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Understandably, the author of these lines is better known as a warrior than as a poet. He is Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 56. As the legendary hero of the Sinai campaign...
...approach. By that time, Premier Golda Meir will be past 75. Since she recently told a meeting of Labor Party chiefs that politicians should retire at that age, she is not expected to stand for reelection. At present, the warmest rivalry for her post is between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, who counts on Bar-Lev as a Cabinet counterweight to Dayan. Bar-Lev is being talked about as a possible candidate for the Defense job-and even, in a decade or so, for the premiership...
...While Dayan is still the most popular politician in Israel, Sapir has the party organization sewed up. At the moment he commands the center of attention, since Israel's major problem is not military but economic. Facing severe austerity in 1972, Sapir has announced plans to cut back on benefits for immigrants and on the elaborate pageantry planned for Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations. The Treasury is so hard up that Israel was even ready to abandon its claim to the 50 Mirage aircraft held in France under an arms embargo imposed by Charles de Gaulle...
Decisive Year. With the front lines quiet for 15 months, Sapir has been pressing Dayan to whittle down the defense budget from this year's $1.5 billion. Dayan grudgingly cut $120 million from his 1972 budget. But then Sapir struck again. He told the Cabinet that the government would have to set a limit of $3.9 billion for spending by all departments or risk disastrous inflation. That would mean a 40% cut for every other ministry unless Dayan gave up even more. In effect Sapir pitted the entire Cabinet against Dayan...
...Dayan earlier warned armored-corps officers that, with negotiations over a Suez Canal settlement at an impasse and with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat making threatening noises, "1972 will be a decisive year." Last week he declared: "I won't give my hand to cutting 100 or 200 tanks from our forces." His aides meanwhile put out stories that Israel would have to curtail purchases of bombs and shells and construction of forts if the defense budget were cut too sharply. Bar-Lev was no help to Dayan. He allowed that, if the cease-fire continued, reserve duty...