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...Tuesday Goodman appeared in a Jerusalem court. He was seemingly indifferent to the fact that he could not afford a defense lawyer. "It doesn't matter," he said. "This is a political action, rather than a legal matter." Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the extremist Kach movement (see box), quickly came to Goodman's rescue by agreeing to pay for his defense. Goodman shouted as he left the courtroom, "Justice for national liberation!" Little was yet known about the Baltimore-born Goodman, 37, beyond reports that he had been visiting Israel off and on since 1967 and had only recently...
...international JDL., whose goal is to protect Jews around the world, has been often linked to violent acts. Its leader Meir Kahane, has been imprisoned in Israel...
...determined to go ahead; the difference between the various deployment schemes was now down to a quibble. As a sign of his good will, he said, I could inform Golda Meir that he would not exercise his right to keep 30 tanks across the Canal. The principle that Egypt had the right to maintain its major weapons on its own soil had been established; he would not use it. Then, dramatically, he asked me to take a personal message to Golda. He dictated it on the spot; it was the first direct message in 26 years from an Egyptian head...
...hours earlier, Prime Minister Golda Meir had summoned our Ambassador, former Senator Kenneth Keating, to her office in Jerusalem. It was extraordinary for an Israeli leader to be at work that day?Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year for Jews. It is a day that climaxes a holy season in which, according to tradition, God decides the destiny of all mortals for the coming year. Golda's startling message was that Israel's encounter with destiny had already begun...
...Dinitz asked to see me alone. Prime Minister Meir, he told me, was prepared to come to the U.S. personally to plead with President Nixon for urgent arms aid. It could be a secret visit. I rejected the idea out of hand and without checking with Nixon. Golda's leaving while a major battle was going on would be a sign of such panic that it might bring in all the Arab states still on the sidelines. It would leave Israel leaderless when Golda's dauntless courage was most needed. (I learned after the war that at this very moment...