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Shmuel Harlap, a graduate student in political science, said that though the people in Israel do not have complete confidence in Golda Meir and her government, she will undoubtedly continue as prime minister. However, he said he anticipates changes in the Labor Party as a result of this lack of confidence...
Last week a special meeting of the Labor Party central committee gave Premier Golda Meir an overwhelming vote of confidence, but the 18-hour marathon session betrayed some of the di visions plaguing the country. No sooner had the meeting begun than Deputy Premier Yigal Allon demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, was designated "sole" representative of the Palestinians at the upcoming Geneva conference, despite Jordanian protests. Thus the eventual lineup of Arabs at the peace table will include Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. The list is bound to irritate both King Hussein and Israeli Premier Golda Meir. "He doesn't represent a country," she said of Arafat last week. "I don't know how you negotiate with somebody who tells you that you are doomed...
Israelis are confused by the setbacks that their armed forces suffered in the early days of the war, and depressed by the loss of at least 1,854 lives on the battlefield. Premier Golda Meir admitted last week that in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, even she feared that Israel would be defeated and annihilated. Attempting to still the cries of critics who charge that her government was unprepared for the war, she appointed a nonpartisan five-man commission, headed by Supreme Court President Shimon Agranat, to investigate the army's errors...
Israel, on the other hand, is in much less of a hurry. Its national elections are scheduled to be held Dec. 31, and the political campaign will begin Dec. 8. Premier Meir's government has already been weakened by domestic bickering over the recent war, and will hardly be in a position to negotiate intensively -much less make significant concessions-until the elections are out of the way. Israel is also angry about Egypt's continuing blockade of the Bab el Mandeb straits at the southern end of the Red Sea, and in addition it is waiting...