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...TIME covered its stunning victory. Six years later, in the October War, TIME reported on the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria and Isreal's resounding comeback. Time also devoted a number of cover stories to the search for peace in the Middle East, including Prime Minister Golda Meir's last-minute steps to avert full scale war in 1969 and the momentus summit between Isreal's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1977. Only 5 weeks ago a TIME cover story examined Isreal today and its economic and political future. This week Begin...
During those years, however, Peres also made some powerful enemies, whose vindictive animosity has plagued his political career. His arms-buying forays in Europe often edged into diplomacy, irritating then Foreign Minister Golda Meir. As a Knesset member in 1965, Peres helped to found the Rafi faction of Ben-Gurion loyalists that defected from the Labor Party for three years...
...depth and bitterness of the personal and professional rivalry between Peres and Rabin came out in the open in 1974, when Peres challenged Rabin for the job of party chairman after Golda Meir's retirement. Peres lost narrowly, and I though Rabin was forced to include shim in his Cabinet as Defense Minister, he never forgave Peres for what he considered an act of political sabotage...
After Golda Meir's resignation as Prime Minister in 1974, Rabin defeated Peres for the party leadership, but by only 44 votes. Rabin was compelled to include Peres in his Cabinet as Defense Minister, but only with what he called "a heavy heart." Rabin did his best to keep Peres in his place. When the Defense Minister delivered a briefing, for instance, Rabin would show his impatience by swiveling round in his chair. Rabin also named General Ariel Sharon, the hero of the 1973 war, as his special military adviser, a role that clearly undercut that of the Defense...
...differing shades of right-wing militancy have given rise to two main groups. Both originated with the Greater Israel Movement, formed in 1967 with the aim of annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank...