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Although the Begin government's triumvirate is notoriously hawkish, Israeli generals are not monolithically hard-line in their politics. Rabin, the only ex-general ever to head the government, turned out to be somewhat more moderate than his predecessor Golda Meir. Former Quartermaster General Matityahu Peled, who teaches Arabic studies at Tel Aviv University, is one of the few prominent Israelis who support the idea of a Palestinian state...
...were without food and water, and their clothes had been shredded by high winds. Ship after ship passed them by, ignoring their S O S's in violation of the most basic code of the sea. Then a Taiwan-bound Israeli freighter sighted the nearly naked passengers. Captain Meir Tadmor of the Yuvali telegraphed Haifa for permission to take them aboard, even though his ship carried only enough life rafts and jackets for his 30-member crew. Still, he had no choice but to pick up the refugees, he told Haifa, because "they are poor in body and morale...
Prime Minister John Vorster expresses this view with unshakable conviction. Showing an intransigence that recalls Golda Meir without the humor, he insists that his policy is right and the rest of the world is wrong. "What do you want us to do?" and "We will not commit suicide" are phrases that keep echoing Golda. Blacks will have the vote in their homelands, he insists, but not in white South Africa. "The blacks came here to get jobs, which they need. That is enough. We don't also have to give them political rights. They understand this when they accept...
...start of the October War, the former Defense Minister, now 62, is still favorably remembered, particularly by older Israelis, as the daring, one-eyed hero of the wars of 1956 and 1967. Outside Israel, Dayan is probably better known than any other Israeli except former Premier Golda Meir, 79. "Whenever he walks into the State Department in Washington," says one Dayan supporter, "he will command respect...
...candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant and focus on the core of a problem." In her office hangs a portrait of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir with the caption, "But can she type...