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...account not only Cairo's increasingly independent role, but also the continuing unsettled political situation in Israel. Even while they watched the Golan Heights last week and alerted reservists to defend it, Israel's political leaders were busy trying to agree on a successor to Premier Golda Meir, who resigned two weeks ago. Labor Party leaders had a choice of selecting someone else, if the right supporting coalition could be found, or of asking Golda to continue with a caretaker government. In either case, the job would be only temporary since it would terminate in national elections...
...Dayan dilemma, Mrs. Meir later confided to intimates, gave her an excuse to quit a job that she never wanted in the first place. "Even had Dayan told me that he was quitting, I would have resigned," she insisted. Indeed, even if the Dayan issue had never arisen, Mrs. Meir would likely have been pressured out of a post that she perhaps had held too long...
...unresponsive. The October war, which ended for Israel without a clear victory for the first time and at a terrible cost of 2,600 dead, was a national trauma. Since the war, according to polls, dissatisfaction with the government has risen to an astounding 67% of voters interviewed. Mrs. Meir's popularity plummeted from 65% before the war to 21% in February...
Premier Golda Meir, in her speech of resignation to the Knesset, warned the government of Lebanon that "we regard it and its people who collaborated with the terrorists as responsible for these murders." After Israel's retaliatory raids...
...even stiffer warning. He said: "If the Lebanese government allows terrorist headquarters to enjoy their freedom in Beirut and at night they cross into Israel, I think a good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted." Lebanese Premier Takieddin Solh denied that his country was responsible. Mrs. Meir's government also came under fire from some Israeli newspapers, which charged that inadequate security arrangements had allowed the commandos to carry out their raid. At funeral services for the dead, Mrs. Meir's personal representative, Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel, was drowned out by catcalls from angry mourners...