it was a lot better than talking without doing. Even his one hobby, archeological digging, is not an intellectual one, but the pastime of a lonely being who goes out to dig, always alone for many long hours, and who later, at home, spends many more hours putting the pieces together, again alone. Archeology certainly is a highly intellectual occupation when it deals with re-creating a picture of history, but not when it deals only with the actual digging, hunting for objects.

A man uninterested in ideas and scornful of advisers who might produce them, cannot stick to a set of ideasone reason for the zigzag course Dayan always seems to follow. Having no organized group of counselors and aides, and no solid structure of thought, Dayan is unable to form a party of his own. Thus his only way to success leads through the existing major party, which he will have to take over if he is to be prime minister, even at the price of accepting an existing party machine which he detests and which may well thwart his actions. (In Israel, which has no two-party system, it would be more natural for a charismatic leader like Dayan to create his own party as an instrument for the realization of his aims. This is what Ben-Gurion did-several times.)

But Dayan, nevertheless, is guided by a central theme. With all his meandering, he always comes back to one basic line; the public senses it and, therefore, the cry went out to have him in the Defense Ministry on the eve of the recent war. Dayan was, is, and will always be an Arabfighter. He is the Israeli equivalent of what Americans used to call an Indian-fighter, a type common in the second generation of settlers in a country where newcomers are forced to fight the native population.

If one looks through all the thousands of speeches, articles and declarations of Moshe Dayan, one finds a single speech that really expresses what he thinks. This is the eulogy he delivered at the funeral of Roy Rotenberg. Roy, a member of the kibbutz Nahal-Oz, opposite Gaza,

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