Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks before the election Israelis were well aware that the dovish wing of the Labour party wanted to expel Dayan and Golda after the election. This disturbed many Israelis, and the subsequent gain in Likud's strength made such a move out of the question. Nevertheless, Mr. Harlap predicts the expulsion of Dayan in a few months. If Dayan is forced to leave the labour coalition, he will be followed by the other 10 members of the Rafi faction. Mr. Harlap does not realize that the major change in the Eighth Knesset, as Manachim Begin put it, is that "there...
...Israelis are "thoroughly aware" that they underrated the Arabs both militarily and in their efforts to isolate Israel politically, and this has led to a leftward move in Israeli policy toward a more dovish political stance vis-a-vis the Arab countries, several members said...
...Israeli policy toward giving up the occupied territories--chiefly meaning the west bank of the Jordan--as part of a comprehensive peace agreement. Walzer said Meir told the group that the so-called Allon Plan was now official Tel Aviv policy; previously it had been considered a somewhat dovish alternative...
...campaign should prove bitter, with hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
...light of the high price Israel has had to pay to retain the territories, the dovish arguments have been weakened. But Sapir personally seems to have gained in prestige, partly because of his successful fund-raising campaign in the U.S. ($1 billion) and partly because the Israeli economy continued to function through the war without major dislocation. Nonetheless, he may well find it necessary to mute his dovish instincts within a post-election Cabinet that will probably be facing a bigger Likud-led hawkish opposition in the Knesset...