Word: jerusalems
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...Carter Administration for the visit last week of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances of an eventual settlement between Israel and its other Arab neighbors...
...Israelis saw it, the Saunders mission was a high-pressure effort to lure Jordan and the Palestinians into the negotiations by publicly siding with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...resume negotiations with Egypt and the U.S. Moreover, in a startling statement that was calculated to antagonize not only Carter but every leader in the Arab world, Begin proposed that his own office, as well as that of his Foreign Minister, should be moved from Government Hill in West Jerusalem to predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, which the Israelis have held since the 1967 war, thus reaffirming Israel's intention of retaining the entire city as its capital. Said a Begin aide: "The Carter Administration was looking for trouble by sending Saunders here. They've really...
...while Washington fumed, Anwar Sadat was playing it fairly cool publicly. Though he had pressed the Carter Administration to do everything it could to help him secure the open support of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Sadat chose to interpret the latest dispute as mainly an argument between Washington and Jerusalem over the timing of the Saunders mission. He was not anxious to break off negotiations, as he had done during the talks in Jerusalem last January. But on Friday the Egyptian government announced it would call its two top negotiators home from Washington for a weekend of consultations...
...Sadat expected, his Arab enemies vere quick to interpret Israel's latest actions as further proof that Begin intends never to give up either the West Bank or East Jerusalem. Ever since the beginning of his peace efforts last year, Sadat has been dangerously isolated from the Arab world. He was relieved last week when the Sudan became the first Arab state to endorse Camp David, and he also took satisfaction from an editorial in a Saudi Arabian paper, the daily Okaz, declaring that Camp David represented "an important stage in Arab history and should be recognized as an established...