Word: dovishness
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...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...
...other politicians in the polls, has thrown down the gauntlet to party leaders on this and other issues in the past few weeks. He has warned that he will not join a new government after the fall elections if it is run by a dove on a dovish platform...
...institutions, as well as the man provide a continuity to American foreign policy. Presidents must keep an eye on Congress, and the resulting loss in peripheral vision narrows the range of policy alternatives. During the Cuban missile crisis, John Kennedy tempted the holocaust and yet considered his actions dovish because many Congressional leaders demanded "surgical strikes" against the Cuban missile sites. A few years later, Lyndon Johnson remembered that the "loss of China" cost Trumaa control of the Congress. He was determined not to repeat the error in Vietnam...
...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 Israeli athletes and coaches...
...proposition to the appropriate authorities. In 1968, before the Paris Viet Nam talks, Fisher, acting as a private citizen, tried to persuade Sweden to get negotiations started. He had half talked former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant into backing the Swedish initiative when that government took a dovish turn that undercut its neutrality. Fisher has also written various letters to Middle Eastern leaders. Recently published as Dear Israelis, Dear Arabs (Harper & Row; $6.95), the letters make many specific proposals, for example, that Israel make a sample withdrawal in part of the Sinai to demonstrate how general rapprochement might work. Fisher...