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...Egypt, and almost immediately began to hear some freewheeling suggestions. One Israeli diplomat offhandedly suggested that peace might be easier to attain if athletic contests could be arranged between the two countries. "That's not a bad idea for a settlement," said one weary aide to Premier Yitzhak Rabin at the end of the talks. "We could let our national football teams beat their brains out against each other and send the armies home to watch...
Complicating Kissinger's negotiations is a long-smoldering political crisis in Israel that limits Premier Rabin's ability to maneuver. "There is no country in the world where foreign and domestic policies are so intimately related as they are in Israel," a Foreign Ministry official involved in the U.S. Secretary's visit told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week. "If Rabin gets an agreement that points to progress and the normalization of relations with Egypt, he can get over the domestic problem. Otherwise the problem will be severe...
...Rabin's "domestic problem" is that while he has had no big failures as Premier since he replaced Golda Meir last May, he also has had no major successes, and his popularity within Israel is fading...
Israel's slow recovery from the war and its eroding image abroad have caused some Israelis to question his leadership. If Rabin's fragile coalition majority in the Knesset were to collapse, there are several men who are not only willing but eager to succeed him. One potential future Premier is articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Another is former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who was recently cleared by a fact-finding of responsibility for Israel's poor showing at the outset of the October...
...Although Rabin is leader of the dominant Labor Party as well as Premier, he has consistently ignored party apparatchiks and rarely sat in on their caucuses. The party is now so deeply in debt-an estimated $4 million-that its headquarters in Tel Aviv has trouble paying its telephone bills. Ironically, according to some critics, the chances of peace might actually improve if the dovish Rabin were replaced by either Peres or Dayan, both of whom have reputations as hawks. The theory is that a noted hard-liner would be better able than Rabin to convince the Israelis that they...