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Last week a special meeting of the Labor Party central committee gave Premier Golda Meir an overwhelming vote of confidence, but the 18-hour marathon session betrayed some of the di visions plaguing the country. No sooner had the meeting begun than Deputy Premier Yigal Allon demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued...
...Yariv and el Gamasi were stiff and precise. They spoke in English with Siilasvuo but not to each other. They signed three English copies of the Kissinger agreement and then adjourned. Scarcely 24 hours later, the truce came close to being shattered. The trouble was, as Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told a television audience, that the agreement was "a typical Kissinger document. Each side can find [in it] whatever it wishes...
...West Bank, as King Hussein suggested in 1972. As an added assurance of Arab good intentions, the territory, which would be federated to Jordan, could also have U.N. observers, as well as open borders for Israeli inspection. A plan proposed in 1968 by Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon parallels Hussein's proposal in important respects...
...Aviv, Israeli leaders met in a heated Cabinet session to discuss reaction to the crisis. Defense Minister Dayan, Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon and Minister of Commerce Haim Bar-Lev won the support of Prime Minister Meir for a policy to hit back hard at the Arabs. Dayan argued that merely to repulse the Egyptian-Syrian invasion would be no victory, merely a stalemate. The Arabs had to be punished, he insisted, by Israeli counterpunches into their territory. The Cabinet approved. Few Western military observers had doubted that Israel had the force to do it. What left many of them...
...leadership and its younger citizens. In Israel, the gap is a veritable chasm. The ruling elite is almost entirely made up of men and women, now in their 60s and 70s, who were born in Europe. Only two members of the present 19-man Cabinet, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, are native-born Israelis, as are only 27 out of 120 members of the Knesset...