Word: golda
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...until two months ago. The most hawkish position on skyjacking is that of the Israeli government, which advises El Al pilots: "There will be no deals, ever, regardless of the risks involved." Says an airline executive in London: "The Israelis are now prepared to let the terrorists blow up Golda Meir before they give...
Will she or won't she? The most tantalizing question about the internal politics of Israel is whether Premier Golda Meir, 74, intends to continue in office after the end of her four-year term in November, 1972. During the past six months, Mrs. Meir has dropped several hints in public that she wants to retire. However, no one took her seriously until a week or so ago, when she bluntly told several confidants in the Labor Party that she really is going to step down. One result of this decision has been the intensification of the feud between...
Shortly after last month's massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich, Premier Golda Meir angrily announced a "farflung" war against Arab terrorists. But after a bloody raid inside neighboring Lebanon - in which some 200 Arabs were killed - the Israelis have been unusually restrained. The reason, according to some well-placed Israelis: two weeks ago a White House aide - in a direct call to Mrs. Meir - asked Jerusalem to refrain from disturbing the peace for the immediate future. The same message was passed to Israel's Washington embassy, which was told that Lebanon needed at least a month...
Israel last week declared a new war on the Arabs. It will be fought on a "farflung, dangerous and vital front line," Premier Golda Meir grimly told the Knesset, "with all the assiduity and skill of which our people are capable." Thus last week, in the aftermath of the Munich murders, the Israeli government vowed to carry the war of terrorism back to the Arabs-guerrillas and host countries alike-and to strike at times and places of Israel's own choosing...
Chayes recently went on a two week fact-finding mission for McGovern in Western Europe and Israel, where he said he got "royal treatment." He said the Israelis he talked to--including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan--had none of the apprehensions about McGovern's position on Israel that newspapers report are sending many American Jews to the Nixon camp...