Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, though, may have struck out as a potential successor to Golda Meir. Al though he very likely will retain his Cabinet post, his prestige has fallen. Israel's swift victory in the Six-Day War made Dayan a national hero. But the heavy casualties that Israel has suffered this time, plus the fact that the Arab attack took the country by surprise, have now hurt him. Uri Avneri, a longtime Dayan enemy, gleefully said last week: "The Dayan myth is dead...
...light of the high price Israel has had to pay to retain the territories, the dovish arguments have been weakened. But Sapir personally seems to have gained in prestige, partly because of his successful fund-raising campaign in the U.S. ($1 billion) and partly because the Israeli economy continued to function through the war without major dislocation. Nonetheless, he may well find it necessary to mute his dovish instincts within a post-election Cabinet that will probably be facing a bigger Likud-led hawkish opposition in the Knesset...
...GOLAN HEIGHTS. The barren Golan Heights are useful only as a strategic barrier. Israel might retain a part of this disputed rocky terrain. A U.N. peace-keeping force, with similar guarantees against withdrawal, could keep the armies apart-and protect Israeli settlements from the Syrian guns that periodically fired on them before...
Though the Israelis have allowed Moslems free access to holy places like the Al Aqsa Mosque, Israeli occupation of the Old City, site of most of the religious shrines, remains unacceptable to proud Arabs. Logic would suggest that Israel retain Jewish sections of the city, but that an Arab administration run the Arab quarters, with a joint planning board and joint administration of common services. The U.N. could guarantee all religious faiths access to sacred shrines in this very special city. A compromise on this emotional issue, however, might well lead to the collapse of any Israeli government that...