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Only a year later, he retired to study politics. He joined Ben-Gurion's Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, where he proved every bit as tough a professional as he had been in the army. Against determined opposition, he broke up the large dairy cooperatives, which he felt were not operating in the nation's best economic interest. He seemed on the way to eventual premiership. Then, when Ben-Gurion resigned and left the ruling Mapai party, Dayan followed; he became a Knesset member of B-G's splinter Rafi party...
...statement that the state of Israel has never seriously tried to make peace with the Arabs is absurd on its face in light of the repeated appeals by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and by his predecessor, David Ben-Gurion, for a peace meeting between Israel and the Arab states, a meeting repeatedly rejected by Nasser and other Arab leaders...
...diplomacy fails and open war does come, Eshkol last week relinquished the post of Defense Minister that he had kept for himself and turned it over to General Moshe Dayan, 52, the dashing, one-eyed hero of the Sinai campaign and an ally of ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, now a chief critic of Eshkol...
...miracle confined to the tiny Jewish homeland. "Israel," says Ben-Gurion, "has created a new image of the Jew in the world?the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. The state has straightened the backs of Jews in every country." In place of many of the old stereotypes of the Jew emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields...
...more than Ben-Gurion could take. "He is a disgrace to the people and the nation," announced the old man. "He does not know how to distinguish between truth and untruth. He should be fired." And, at the age of 80, Ben-Gurion tried to see to it that he was. After being rebuffed in his attempts by the laborite Mapai Party, which he had founded, B-G rallied his old friends around him to form a new political party and set out to defeat Eshkol in the 1965 parliamentary elections. Even with Dayan at his side...