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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 Friday, August 11, 1979
Rabin's Attack May Solidify Peres' Hold on Labor Party
lished this week by Maariv,
Rabin accuses Peres as
"constantly undermining"
his rule, at all costs.
Details of the- new book
were publicized by Israel
Television.
Rabin wrote that Peres
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Former Premier Yitzhak
Rabin has launched an all-
out political war against his
long-time rival, Labor Pary
chairman Shimon Peres. In
a new book, whose first two
chapters were to be pub-
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was determined to become
premier, and for that goal,
everything was permissi-
ble, including leaking state
secrets to the press. Accord-
ing to Rabin, this reached a
climax when the press pub-
licized the story of a secret
visit by Soviet emissaries.
Rabin, in the book,
entitled "Service Record,"
disqualified Peres from
serving as Israel's premier
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on the grounds that he was
never a soldier. Rabin re-
called that he did not con-
sider Peres the suitable
candidate for Defense
Minister in his Cabinet, but
was forced to appoint him by
the implied threat of the
ex-Rafi wing that it would
not support the government
unless Peres was appointed.
In an interview with Is-
rael TV, Peres said he
had served in the
Hagana, the Israel De-
fense Force and the de-
fense establishment from
his early youth.
Peres noted that the ele-
ment of revenge was some-
times much stronger in
political autobiographies
than the historical record,
"but I am sure that the truth
will come out one day . ."
He added: ". . I am at peace
with myself. My memory is
intact."
Rabin alleged in the book
that "53 hours after the Air
France airliner was
hijacked to Entebbe (Air-
port in Uganda in July,
1976). Peres had not fulfilled
the minimum requirement
of a defense minister, to as-
certain from the command-
ing officers the military op-
tions."
But Peres had a totally
different version: ". . . I am
happy that. on the eve of the
operation, Rabin joined in
the decision to carry out the
raid, and the Cabinet ap-
proved it."
On the illicit Rabin
Washington bank ac-
count, which finally
brought him down,
Rabin wrote that six
months before the ac-
count was exposed, a
"well-known" Israeli
journalist had informed
one of his aides that cer-
tain circles in the Labor
Party knew of the ac-
count and planned to
use it to discredit him.
These circles even sent
an investigator to Wash-
ington.
Rabin ignored the warn-
ing, and this was, he wrote,
his "tragic mistake."
Romania Mideast
Meeting Unlikely
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
President Nicolae
Ceausescu of Romania in-
tends to initiate an interna-
tional conference on the
problems of, the Palesti-
nians with the participation
of the Soviet Union and the
United States, according to
reports from Bucharest
where Ceausescu met with
former Israeli Premier Yit-
zhak Rabin.
The Romanian president
also told Rabin he intends to
invite Israel, the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
the Arab countries and
"other states" to that con-
ference.
According to reports from
Bucharest, Rabin told
Ceausescu he did not be-
lieve such a conference
could materialize. Rabin
has reported on his talks in
Romania to Premier
Menahem Begin.
has helped Premier
Menahem Begin's govern-
ment.
The Rabin charges left Is-
raelis bewildered and won-
dering who was running Is-
rael and who could run Is-
rael. Israelis were troubled
by an ailing, though re-
covering Begin, and an ail-
ing Cabinet in which per-
sonal and ideological rifts
repeatedly sparked fights
between the ministers, a
situation publicly criticized
by Foreign Minister Mos
Dayan last week.
The Likud Knesset mem-
SHIMON PERES
bers comprising Herut, Lib-
Peres said he thought Ra- eral Party and La'am, held a
bin's book would do its stormy meeting last week to
author a great deal of harm, assess the state of their coal-
and indicated that Rabin ition in the wake of Dayan's
must realize that if Peres harsh criticism.
The Likud members
ever became premier, he
would not make a place for conducted a searing
Rabin in his government. critique of the govern-
Rabin, in his book, said that ment. Most speakers at
he would never want to the meeting confirmed
serve under Peres as pre- Dayan's assessment that
the government seemed
mier.
Rabin was lambasted by to be paralyzed, espe-
Labor Party leaders Sunday cially in the economic
night, but the party bureau field which he had de-
decided not to pass a resolu- scribed as chaotic.
The meeting ended with
tion rebuking him.
The only Labor Party the adoption of a resolution
leader to defend Rabin dur- calling on Begin and Likud
ing the four-hour meeting ministers to convene in two
was former Foreign Minis- weeks and bring to that
ter Yigal Allon. "The party meeting a detailed plan to
needs both Peres and Ra- improve the situation.
The stormy nature of the
bin," Allon declared. He
criticized the all-out as- meeting and the self-critical
saults against the former statements were made, ac-
cording to some of those in
premier.
Rabin appeared to take attendance, because most of
the ordeal philosophi- the Likud Cabinet minis-
cally although the out- ters were not present, nor
come left no doubt that was Begin.
Peres emerged the un-
challenged leader of the
party despite Rabin's, ,
hopes to replace him.
INVITATIONS?
During the debate,
Hattie Schwartz
former Justice Minister
Haim Zadok said the book
had "damaged Rabin's cre-
dibility and the belief in his
balanced judgment and
showed how personal
enmity could affect an
author's senses." Labor
Party secretary general
Haim Barley said the book
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