Word: matityahu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Begin government's triumvirate is notoriously hawkish, Israeli generals are not monolithically hard-line in their politics. Rabin, the only ex-general ever to head the government, turned out to be somewhat more moderate than his predecessor Golda Meir. Former Quartermaster General Matityahu Peled, who teaches Arabic studies at Tel Aviv University, is one of the few prominent Israelis who support the idea of a Palestinian state...
...Matityahu Peled, a political commentator and Arab studies specialist at Tel Aviv University and the army's quartermaster general in the war, calls the survival argument "a bluff which was born and developed only after the war." Says Peled of the crisis five years ago: "When we spoke of the war in the General Staff, we talked of the political ramifications if we didn't go to war -what would happen to Israel in the next 25 years. Never of survival today...
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