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...think of history run by impersonal forces," he mused. "But when you see it in practice you see the differences that the personalities make. The overtures to China would not have worked without Chou Enlai. There would have been no settlement in the Middle East without Sadat and Golda Meir and Dayan...
Never before in a quarter-century of bitter Middle East diplomatic negotiations has a U.S. Secretary of State been so handsomely treated by both sides. "You have made history this week," said a smiling Israeli Premier Golda Meir to Henry Kissinger. Five hours later and 600 miles away in Egypt, President Anwar Sadat embraced Kissinger, called him "Brother" and said warmly: "Let us hope that the road we paved is for a lasting peace...
...hopeful for Israel, Stone wrote in 1956, "The Arab refugees weigh upon my conscience, and I believe it the moral duty of Jews everywhere to contribute when peace is made towards their resettlement." In 1970, still deploring Israel's failure to deal justly with the Palestinians, Stone wrote that Golda Meir's "coldness was unworthy of a Jewish leader. . . Leadership like hers, in forty years of siege and war, will purge the Jews of the compassion acquired in exile...
However, what I actually said was the following: Golda is to be blamed for two misdeeds: first, her tacit alliance with the Likud (the rightist allignment) is in principle and in practice a violation of the Socialist, moderate, peace-oriented tradition of the Labor party and an unprecedented challenge to the majority of Labor's voters whose social and political ideology disagree with such previous policies as Dayan's 'crawling annexation' of the occupied territories which culminated in the notorious 'Gallili document'; the encouragement of a process which will enable Arab (cheap or expansive labor under Israeli management...
...basis of these two observations I suggested that the meaningful change in Israel's politics should not be expected to take place in the election but a few months after it within the Labor party, when Golda will have to give up the premiership, probably to Yigal Alon, followed by Dayan's resignation and Gallili's departure from Israel's political map. Shmuel Harlap