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...double check, Kissinger instructed Keating to repeat his warning against initiating action to Premier Golda Meir. The Kalbs say that Keating reportedly told Mrs. Meir: "If Israel refrained from a pre-emptive strike, allowing the Arabs to provide irrefutable proof that they were the aggressors, then America would feel morally obliged to help." The Kalbs add: "No translation was needed that if Israel struck first, then the U.S. would feel no moral obligation to help. Israel would be alone." Mrs. Meir reversed 25 years of Israeli strategy and accepted the first blows...
...near Tel Aviv, the heavy iron gates were trampled down by a crying, shouting mob. The homecoming Israelis who debarked from the DC-6 chartered by the International Red Cross were literally passed hand over hand above the crowd to joyous relatives. Attending dignitaries, led by retiring Premier Golda Meir and her successor Yitzhak Rabin, had to scramble for their safety as well as their dignity. At Damascus International Airport, meanwhile, 10,000 delirious people, ignoring streams of water played on them from fire-engine hoses, broke through cordons of paratroopers who attempted futilely to hold them back. Finally...
...After Premier Meir's Cabinet approves the final terms, a disengagement deal is announced...
...commander of Israel's forces in the 1967 Six-Day War and a former Ambassador to Washington, Rabin was selected by a Labor Party Central Committee as Premier-designate after Golda Meir announced her resignation last April 11. Although widely respected by Israeli voters, Rabin has antagonized some members of the Labor establishment by excluding members of the dominant Mapai faction of the Labor Party from important Cabinet posts...
...Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because Sapir believes that the new government will not survive for more than two months. Nor has departing Golda Meir gone out of her way to bolster Rabin's cause. Since he was neither a dyed-in-the-wool Mapai man nor an experienced politician, she was cool to his selection as the new Premier-designate and did not attend all of the Labor Party meetings at which...