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...governing Labor Party rejected Sadat's Suez proposals. They cheered a resolution calling for eventual postwar borders that would include much of the captured territory that Israel holds. The delegates rejected Washington's proposals that Israel retain only "insubstantial" portions. In the convention keynote address, Premier Golda Meir opposed pressure on Israel to agree to reopening the Suez "within the framework of an enforced political solution inspired by Egypt and the Soviet Union." Israel is, however, willing to enter talks on Suez independent of any discussions about occupied territories. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said that between the alternatives...
Israel's definition of secure borders increasingly irritates Washington as well as Cairo. Mrs. Meir is aware of this. "We are very sorry," she told the Labor Party delegates, "that we are engaged in an argument which may well grow bitter." Indeed it may. If Egypt is able to summon an emergency Security Council meeting, the U.S. could be faced with an uncomfortable dilemma. As Israel's protector and last remaining major friend, the U.S. would probably veto any censure of Israel that called for a return of all captured territory. Yet this would in effect mean vetoing...
TIME'S survey, carried out with the help of Public Opinion Research of Israel Ltd., indicates that there is scant public pressure on the coalition government of Premier Golda Meir to soften any policy-or, for that matter, to harden it. Of the Jewish Israelis questioned, 85% feel that the government is doing all it should to negotiate a peace treaty. They also give stunning support to the government position that the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sharm el Sheikh should be retained by Israel in any settlement (see map). Only 7% of the Israelis...
...GOVERNMENT RATES: Israelis are high Ott their political leaders. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is most lauded, with 95% rating him anywhere from "excellent" to "pretty good." Dayan even outpolled Mrs. Meir, whose rating was 91%. Abba Eban received 78% among Israelis (and 75% among Arabs who approve of his relative dovishness and the fact that he makes radio broadcasts in perfect Arabic). Opposition Leader Menahem Begin received a 66% rating. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon each received 65%; Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir...
...Golda Meir, for the time being at least, appears to have a lock on the Premier's office. She is the first choice for that job of 52% of Israelis. Dayan is a distant runner-up: 20% make him their first choice for Premier and 31% their second choice. Allon got first-choice votes from 8% and second choice from 21%. Political observers note, however, that on the day Premier Levi Eshkol died two years ago, Golda Meir rated poorly in a poll of possible successors...