THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Labor Party Insiders Are Staying Attuned
to Israeli Government's Functioning
By UZI BENZIMAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Israeli attack on the
Iraqi nuclear reactor near
Baghdad has highlighted
an interesting phenomenon
in Israeli political life: The
Labor opposition leaders
were well informed about
the operational plans for the
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destruction of the reactor
and about the secret top-
level discussions that had
taken place within the de-
fense establishment as well
as in the Cabinet.
The Labor leaders got
their information not
through the regular par-
liamentary machinery —
such as briefings in the
Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee —
but through an unofficial
network of information
sources comprising civil
servants and several coali-
tion politicians.
The extent of the infor-
mation acquired by the
Labor Alignment on the
planned operation is an
indication of the extent of
its knowledge and familiar:
ity of virtually all areas of
the government's activities.
Labor Party chairman Shi-
mon Peres and his col-
leagues have been privy to
every plan and important
discussion in the Cabinet on
security matters, economic
problems and social policy.
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During the peace
negotiations between Is-
rael and Egypt, Peres
was kept informed about
every stage of the talks.
In January 1978, for
example, at an early
stage of the negotiations,
Peres told the Knesset of
a plan to include the
Rafiah salient in Sinai in
the autonomy district in
order to ensure the con-
tinued existence of Is-
raeli settlements there.
At that time this sugges-
tion, submitted to Cairo by
Israel, was a delicate dip-
lomatic secret.
On other occasions Labor
Alignment MK Yossi Sarid
showed an impressive and
detailed knowledge of the
state of relations between
the Military Government of
the West Bank and the local
Palestinians.
Sarid told the Knesset
that he was informed by
high ranking army officers
about disturbances caused
by Jewish settlers of Kiryat
Arba in the cave of
Machpelah, a holy site, and
about the behavior of Israeli
soldiers during a violent
confrontation with young
Arab demonstrators in
Ramallah.
In February 1978, Sarid
told the press that the Is-
rael Mission in Ethiopia
— whose very presence
in that country was a
closely guarded secret —
had been ordered to
leave because of Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan's
slip of the tongue admis-
sion that Israel was as-
sisting Ethiopia's mili-
tary -regime.
These examples are an
indication of the extent of
the information held by the
opposition party. Much of
the political knowledge ac-
cumulated by Peres and his
colleagues was never made
known publicly.
The Alignment's leader-
ship was not alone in its
surveillance of the govern-
ment's activities through an
unofficial information net-
work. The same means were
utilized by Dayan and De-
fense Minister Ezer Weiz-
man. Though both quit the
government in 1979 and
1980, respectively they con-
tinued to receive classified
data as they had done dur-
ing their service in the
Foreign and Defense minis-
tries.
Dayan, to the present
day, is still a good source of
information about the var-
ious ongoing negotiations
with Egypt. Weizman re-
mains familiar with every
detail concerning the pre-
sent running of defense af-
fairs.
Both men are well in-
formed about the Cabinet
discussions and deci-
sions. Indeed Weizman
knew about the govern-
ment's decision to de-
stroy the Iraqi reactor
and he lobbied actively
among several Cabinet
ministers to try to pre-
vent it.
Peres, Dayan and Weiz-
t
man get their information
from Cabinet members and
from civil servants. The
three of them, and other
Labor opposition figures
who were ministers with
important portfolios,
naturally left behind them
friends and followers who
continue to keep in touch
with them and look to them
for advice.
Premier Menahem Begin
pays the price for this phe-
nomenon. His stewardship
as prime minister is con-
stantly under close scrutiny
by his political rivals who
enjoy the advantage of in-
side information.
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