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Dayan is unbothered by such rebukes. He and his splinter Rafi Party will probably remain in Eshkol's Mapai-dominated government only until the present crisis is settled. In the meantime, Dayan intends to establish as independent a position as possible. For, as members of rival parties, Eshkol and Dayan are likely to be squared off against each other in the 1969 Israeli elections...
...professional as he had been in the army. Against determined opposition, he broke up the large dairy cooperatives, which he felt were not operating in the nation's best economic interest. He seemed on the way to eventual premiership. Then, when Ben-Gurion resigned and left the ruling Mapai party, Dayan followed; he became a Knesset member of B-G's splinter Rafi party...
...them off balance and freeing the Gulf of Aqaba by marching down the Sinai Peninsula to the sea. It is a natural temptation?but it is a measure of Israel's new maturity that it has so far been resisted. Risking national unpopularity and dissension even within his ruling Mapai party, Premier Eshkol, 71, has withheld Israel's sword, counting on diplomacy and the good will of such friends as the U.S. and Britain to work out the problem...
...people and the nation," announced the old man. "He does not know how to distinguish between truth and untruth. He should be fired." And, at the age of 80, Ben-Gurion tried to see to it that he was. After being rebuffed in his attempts by the laborite Mapai Party, which he had founded, B-G rallied his old friends around him to form a new political party and set out to defeat Eshkol in the 1965 parliamentary elections. Even with Dayan at his side, he did not come close. Eshkol, with organized labor behind him, swamped Ben-Gurion...
Israel fired off a note to the Security Council, and U.N. observers rushed to the scene. In Tel Aviv, Mapai leaders happily expected that the renewed border violence would divert the heat from Eshkol on the home front, were optimistic that Harel's campaign would finally fizzle. Not so Harel. He was still accepting all speaking engagements that came his way. Said he: "This is not my privilege but my duty...