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Chasm. In most of the debates over the territories, Prime Minister Golda Meir has sided with the hawks. She seems to have strong popular backing for her increasingly militant stand. A survey published last week by the Institute for Applied Social Research in Jerusalem noted that 58% of Israeli adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly...
...Premier Eshkol dies, and is succeeded by Golda Meir...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has asked Prime Minister Golda Meir to agree to such purchases, but so far there has been no decision. According to a Dayan aide, there are tens of thousands of acres of land in the occupied areas that could be bought from Arab landowners who are willing to sell; purchases have been held up for lack of a govern ment policy...
...Being a woman has never hindered me. It has never caused me any unease, never given me an inferiority complex. Men have always been good to me." Golda Meir, the 74-year-old Premier of Israel, talking to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaei for Ms., decided to set a few things straight. Ben-Gurion's calling her "the only man in my Cabinet" was "just a legend." Had she ever killed anyone in Israel's years of war? "No . . . I learned to shoot, of course, but I've never had to kill anyone. I'm not saying...
Some militants are pursuing their own solutions. Two weeks ago, eleven members of the Jewish Defense League were charged with arson against a missionary bookstore. At a protest fast at the Wailing Wall, the J.D.L.'s rabble-rousing Rabbi Meir Kahane announced, "If you lose a Jew in Auschwitz or through conversion, it's still a soul lost." He later proclaimed the formation of a 25-member countergroup called "Christians for Moses...