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...GOVERNMENT RATES: Israelis are high Ott their political leaders. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is most lauded, with 95% rating him anywhere from "excellent" to "pretty good." Dayan even outpolled Mrs. Meir, whose rating was 91%. Abba Eban received 78% among Israelis (and 75% among Arabs who approve of his relative dovishness and the fact that he makes radio broadcasts in perfect Arabic). Opposition Leader Menahem Begin received a 66% rating. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon each received 65%; Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir...
Jarring's calculated inactivity may be in vain. As far as he is concerned, Israel must make the next move by indicating its willingness to withdraw from occupied territories. Israel has no intention of withdrawing behind any frontiers that it does not consider safe. When Foreign Minister Abba Eban visited Washington two weeks ago, in fact, he told 40 Senators that alternative proposals suggested by Secretary of State William Rogers, including an international peace-keeping force, were not adequate substitutes for secure borders...
Psychological Warfare. Eban's unusual appearance fueled the growing U.S.-Israeli dispute over the peace talks. It also persuaded Rogers to visit Capitol Hill himself for a rare rebuttal. No fewer than 67 Senators appeared for the meeting, the first such session since 1950. Rogers spent 90 minutes explaining that: 1) the U.S., although it favors the return of all but insubstantial pieces of captured Arab territory, has no intention of pressuring Israel to withdraw from occupied lands before peace terms are mutually agreeable; and 2) the Middle East nations will have final approval on the makeup and disposition...
Defending Israel's position, Foreign Minister Abba Eban argued that his government has steadfastly indicated its readiness to negotiate without any conditions: it was the Arabs, he said, who were setting preconditions by insisting on territorial changes before peace terms could be negotiated. Critics of that stance maintained that the Israelis, by announcing in advance that they had no intention of returning all of the occupied territories, were setting preconditions themselves...
Israel's policy is based on what Eban describes as "tenacity." In Eban's view, tenacity worked to bring the Arabs to the Jarring talks. Unable to win back their territories by war, Egyptians and Jordanians finally decided to bargain for them through Jarring. Now tenacity is being used to make Cairo more flexible on the borders issue. If Israel holds out long enough. Eban argues, it may convince Sadat that Egypt will have to negotiate earnestly and finally relinquish territories like Sharm el Sheikh, which Israel intends to retain...