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...point was that last week's meeting came at an unpropitious time. Israel is still undergoing a domestic political crisis resulting from the widespread disenchantment with its leaders' conduct of the Yom Kippur War. Golda Meir is a caretaker Premier; the Labor Party's Premier-designate, Yitzhak Rabin, selected to succeed her two weeks ago, was still trying to form a coalition government. Thus Kissinger's initial discussions involved a strange coterie of old and new Israeli power wielders. They included both Mrs. Meir and Rabin, along with Information Minister Shimon Peres, who narrowly lost...
...Israel, where former Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet...
...unpretentious Tel Aviv movie theater last week, Israel's dominant Labor Party gathered to complete a momentous political shift. By a close (298-254) but generally amicable vote, the party's central committee chose Labor Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 52, over Information Minister Shimon Peres, 51, to become Israel's fifth Premier. Rabin will have six weeks at most to put together a coalition government to succeed the present caretaker Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir. If he fails-as some believe he will-new elections will likely be called...
...Which was chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat. Also on the commission were former Chiefs of Staff Yigael Yadin and Haim Laskov, Supreme Court Judge Moshe Landau and State Comptroller Yitzhak Nebenzahl...
...with a large measure of self-esteem?some critics call it egomania ?Kissinger considers himself a statesman rather than a diplomat. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Chief of Staff, as well as Ambassador to Washington and now Minister of Labor, recalls vividly Kissinger's own definition of the distinction: "The diplomat believes that an international conflict derives from misunderstanding. Therefore he seeks a verbal formula to overcome it. The statesman believes that conflict derives from a difference of interest and confrontation positions. Therefore he tries to change the realities on the ground...