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Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations
A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations [Sep 01, 1981] Dayan, Moshe
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368 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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Moshe Dayan
12 books16 followersMoshe Dayan (Kitaigorodsky) (Hebrew: משה דיין; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz. As the fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–58), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new state of Israel. He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel.
The Telem party won two seats in the 1981 elections, but Dayan died shortly thereafter, in Tel Aviv, from a massive heart attack. He had been in ill-health since 1980, after he was diagnosed with colon cancer late that year. He is buried in Nahalal in the moshav (a collective village) where he was raised. Dayan willed his personal belongings to his bodyguard.
In 2005, his eye patch was offered for sale on Ebay with a starting bid of $75,000 U.S. dollars.
Dayan was a complex character; his opinions were never strictly black and white. He had few close friends; his mental brilliance and charismatic manner were combined with cynicism and lack of restraint. Ariel Sharon noted about Dayan:
He would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.
He had courage amounting to insanity, as well as displays of a lack of responsibility. I would not say the same about his civil courage. Once Ben Gurion had asked me – what do I think of the decision to appoint Dayan as the Minister of Agriculture in his government. I said that it is important that Dayan sits in every government because of his brilliant mind — but never as prime minister. Ben Gurion asked: "why not as prime minister?". I replied then: "because he does not accept responsibility".
Dayan combined a kibbutznik's secular identity and pragmatism with a deep love and appreciation for the Jewish people and the land of Israel—but not a religious identification. In one recollection, having seen rabbis flocking on the Temple Mount shortly after Jerusalem was captured in 1967, he asked, "What is this? Vatican?" On his religious views, Dayan was an atheist.
Dayan later ordered the Israeli flag removed from the Dome of the Rock, and gave administrative control of the Temple Mount over to the Waqf, a Muslim council. Dayan believed that the Temple Mount was more important to Judaism as a historical rather than holy site.
Dayan was an author and claimed to be an amateur archaeologist, the latter hobby leading to significant controversy, as his amassing of historical artifacts, often with the help of his soldiers, seemed to be in breach of a number of laws. Some of his activities in this regard, whether illegal digging, looting of sites or commerce of antiquities, have been detailed by R. Kletter from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
In 2005, Moshe Dayan was voted the 73rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
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The Telem party won two seats in the 1981 elections, but Dayan died shortly thereafter, in Tel Aviv, from a massive heart attack. He had been in ill-health since 1980, after he was diagnosed with colon cancer late that year. He is buried in Nahalal in the moshav (a collective village) where he was raised. Dayan willed his personal belongings to his bodyguard.
In 2005, his eye patch was offered for sale on Ebay with a starting bid of $75,000 U.S. dollars.
Dayan was a complex character; his opinions were never strictly black and white. He had few close friends; his mental brilliance and charismatic manner were combined with cynicism and lack of restraint. Ariel Sharon noted about Dayan:
He would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.
He had courage amounting to insanity, as well as displays of a lack of responsibility. I would not say the same about his civil courage. Once Ben Gurion had asked me – what do I think of the decision to appoint Dayan as the Minister of Agriculture in his government. I said that it is important that Dayan sits in every government because of his brilliant mind — but never as prime minister. Ben Gurion asked: "why not as prime minister?". I replied then: "because he does not accept responsibility".
Dayan combined a kibbutznik's secular identity and pragmatism with a deep love and appreciation for the Jewish people and the land of Israel—but not a religious identification. In one recollection, having seen rabbis flocking on the Temple Mount shortly after Jerusalem was captured in 1967, he asked, "What is this? Vatican?" On his religious views, Dayan was an atheist.
Dayan later ordered the Israeli flag removed from the Dome of the Rock, and gave administrative control of the Temple Mount over to the Waqf, a Muslim council. Dayan believed that the Temple Mount was more important to Judaism as a historical rather than holy site.
Dayan was an author and claimed to be an amateur archaeologist, the latter hobby leading to significant controversy, as his amassing of historical artifacts, often with the help of his soldiers, seemed to be in breach of a number of laws. Some of his activities in this regard, whether illegal digging, looting of sites or commerce of antiquities, have been detailed by R. Kletter from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
In 2005, Moshe Dayan was voted the 73rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
More: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
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February 2, 2013
سرد تفصيلي من وجهة نظرالعدو لمباحثات السلام...عند سرد مواقف عديدة في المفاوضات مع ساستنا كنت أمنع نفسي بصعوبة من البصق
December 26, 2019
This was a bit of a dense read, but oh, the drama! Anyone who enjoys history, and particularly the history of the late 1970s will find this interesting.
Most of us who were around and moderately sentient at the time will recall the media hype when Carter announced that the Egyptians and the Israelis had struck a deal that would lead to a peace treaty between the two nations. The author provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the agreement came to pass—sometimes a pounded hammered letter at a time, or so it seems.
Those with rosy remembrances of Jimmy Carter’s administration may be a bit disturbed by this book. Carter comes across as almost anti-semetic in a place or two here. Granted, this is a pro-Israeli bias, but Carter is portrayed as an obstacle to progress. In fairness, no one is always the angelic negotiator prepared to rescue the process. This is an entertaining and thoughtful back-and-forth look at the treaty negotiation process. Mixed with the details of the hard-fought treaty process is a sensitive look at the author’s personal and private thoughts and likes. His interest in archeology and his love for his country—both its ancient history and its modern complexities—comes through vividly here.
Most of us who were around and moderately sentient at the time will recall the media hype when Carter announced that the Egyptians and the Israelis had struck a deal that would lead to a peace treaty between the two nations. The author provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the agreement came to pass—sometimes a pounded hammered letter at a time, or so it seems.
Those with rosy remembrances of Jimmy Carter’s administration may be a bit disturbed by this book. Carter comes across as almost anti-semetic in a place or two here. Granted, this is a pro-Israeli bias, but Carter is portrayed as an obstacle to progress. In fairness, no one is always the angelic negotiator prepared to rescue the process. This is an entertaining and thoughtful back-and-forth look at the treaty negotiation process. Mixed with the details of the hard-fought treaty process is a sensitive look at the author’s personal and private thoughts and likes. His interest in archeology and his love for his country—both its ancient history and its modern complexities—comes through vividly here.
January 23, 2024
Dayan provides his personal account of trying to establish peace between Egypt and Israel in the 1970s, a major progressive step in cooling down the conflicts since the founding of Israel as a nation in 1948. The book covers about a year's worth of travels and negotiations with Dayan as a minister of Israel. It is insightful for also understanding the international policies of the United States during this period which acted as a "neutral" negotiator in creating peace. There were also larger issues spilling into the Palestinian problem and Jordan. Dayan gives some details of his own life here and there such as his visits to antiquity dealers. The appendices of the treaties and correspondence of various parties were helpful to see some the official side of the talks.
October 14, 2025
يقدم ديان روايته الشخصية عن مساعيه لإحلال السلام بين مصر وإسرائيل في سبعينيات القرن الماضي، وهي خطوة تقدمية هامة في تهدئة الصراعات منذ تأسيس إسرائيل كدولة عام ١٩٤٨. يغطي الكتاب حوالي عام من رحلاته ومفاوضاته مع ديان بصفته وزيرًا في حكومة إسرائيل. وهو مفيد لفهم السياسات الدولية للولايات المتحدة خلال تلك الفترة، والتي لعبت دور المفاوض "المحايد" في تحقيق السلام. كما امتدت قضايا أكبر إلى القضية الفلسطينية والأردن. ويقدم ديان بعض التفاصيل عن حياته الشخصية هنا وهناك، مثل زياراته لتجار الآثار. وقد ساعدت ملاحق المعاهدات ومراسلات مختلف الأطراف في الاطلاع على الجانب الرسمي من المحادثات.
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