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...found any real fault with these findings. But the commission, which concluded that Mrs. Meir had "used her authority properly and wisely," also went on to state that it had seriously weighed the role of Defense Minister Dayan. It noted favorably that Dayan had toured the Golan Heights a week before the war and had called for reinforcements there. The commission concluded that "the Minister was not required to issue orders adding to or different from those proposed to him by the Chief of Staff and Chief of Intelligence...
...embargo in recognition of U.S. efforts to arrange a Middle East settlement. But there remains a threat that the Arabs could close the spigot again in June if they judged that the U.S. had not pushed hard enough to secure, among other things, an Israeli pullback in the Golan Heights. The Arabs will meet in Cairo on June 1 to "review" American efforts along these lines, and could reimpose the embargo if they are dissatisfied...
...October. We are not prepared to give him something beyond the 1967 border. We should be talking now only about the results of the October war. He has villages in the territory we captured, and he should be concerned about them. But he wants us to get off the Golan Heights entirely. There is no one who can honestly say to us, after seeing the situation on the Heights and listening to Assad, that we should come down. We have been down there before. For 19 years we were not on the Golan, and our towns and settlements...
...much of the present situation is due to Israel's refusal to return the Golan Heights after...
...honest person can guarantee us that if we had come down from the Golan Heights after 1967, the Syrians would not have kept attacking our settlements. Outsiders are allowed to speculate about this. But they have no responsibility for the security of Israel...