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...important factor, however, was the timing. Premier Golda Meir of Israel, Rogers noted, had informed the Knesset in Jerusalem that her government accepted the principles of the U.N. resolution. Foreign Minister Abba Eban hinted that Israel would be willing to make surprising concessions once negotiations began. Even hawkish Defense Minister Moshe Dayan allowed that "we are ready to give up a great deal for peace, and that includes territories." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, meanwhile, had pointedly emphasized in a May Day speech that "we have not closed the door completely with the U.S." During a recent television interview, moreover...
...turmoil in Jordan last week overshadowed and probably delayed the decision, but did not reverse it. Some time in the near future the Nixon Administration will inform the Israelis that they can have more U.S. planes. Not as many as they want?Premier Golda Meir has requested 25 U.S.-built Phantom jets and 100 Skyhawks?but some. There will be strings. The U.S. will probably continue to refuse to replace planes lost in actions against Lebanon or Jordan. It will also urge Israel to drop its demand for direct, unconditional talks with the Arabs and to indicate a readiness...
...Choice. If the shelters speak eloquently of a protracted war of stalemate, so do the politicians. On a hill in Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir spoke last week at ceremonies dedicating olive trees to each of 181 soldiers killed during the 1967 battle that wrested old Jerusalem from Jordan. "We have already paid the highest price there is for peace," she said, but she offered littie hope that real peace might be in reach...
Once again Mrs. Meir was giving voice to the feeling of ein breira-no other choice. None, that is, but to fight and bleed. Most of her countrymen echo that attitude. A minority, but an influential and articulate minority, increasingly wonders whether Mrs. Meir and her Cabinet are being intransigent, particularly on the issue of the territories won from Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Perhaps the most savage criticism came in the form of a satirical revue called Queen of the Bathtub, which included a skit in which Mrs. Meir muses to herself about how she is always right. The production...
Missiles at Aswan. Hoping to persuade Washington on that point, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew to the U.S. last week to renew a request for 25 Phantom jets and 100 Skyhawks. Premier Golda Meir requested the planes during her Washington visit last September, but President Nixon deferred action two months ago because, he said, Israel already had air superiority without them. Seeking to reverse that decision, Eban noted that as many as 250 Soviet pilots are flying late model MIG-21s in Egypt, and that the Russians have emplaced 25 advanced SAM missiles around the Aswan High...