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...just dare Dr. Edgar Berman to say that to Mrs. Meir...
ISRAEL is rarely less comfortable I about its dependence on Washington than when the U.S. tries to act both as ally and Middle East peacemaker. Last week, almost before the ink had dried on a U.S.-arranged cease-fire between Israel and Egypt, the government of Premier Golda Meir issued a sudden, stunning alarm that the agreement had been violated. Israel had proof, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, that Egypt and the Soviet Union had whisked new missiles into the cease-fire zone, although both sides were specifically forbidden, according to the truce, to "change the military status quo" there...
That backing, more than anything else, is what Israel wants-and feels it is not getting. Golda Meir, for example, was furious because the State Department's formal letter to the U.N.. conveying both sides' acceptance of the Rogers plan, noted that Israel agreed, as part of a peace settlement, to withdraw from occupied Arab territory. However, it did not stipulate, as Mrs. Meir insisted it should, that the withdrawal be to "secure and agreed borders," which Israel privately argues must include several pieces of occupied territory: a strip of land along the Gulf of Aqaba...
Domestic Problems. In accepting the peace initiatives advanced by Secretary of State William Rogers, both Arab and Israeli leaders have been forced to sacrifice wartime unity and take issue with militant minorities. In Israel last week, the long-awaited showdown finally occurred between Mrs. Meir and the hawkish Gahal faction of her Cabinet. At the first mention of the word "withdrawal" in her speech to the Knesset (parliament), Gahal Leader Menahem Begin rose from his Cabinet seat and walked slowly past Golda to the members' benches, thus fracturing the three-year-old government of national unity. Nonetheless, the Premier...
...Arabs, there is no guarantee that the two sides can move any closer to the final settlement, which has eluded them through three wars and nearly a quarter-century of bitterness. "The chances of success on the U.S. proposals," Nasser reportedly calculated, "are only half of 1%." Golda Meir admitted that "ahead of us still lie difficult trials." Nonetheless, Washington sees greater hope than in many years for some kind of Middle East settlement-or, at the very least, a prolonged cooling-off period. For one thing the cease-fire's earliest expiration date is Nov. 5, when...