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...said Shlomo Re'em, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Di-Zahav on the Gulf of Aqaba. As TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy discovered on a tour through Sinai last week, inhabitants of the 18 Israeli settlements in the peninsula are united in feeling that they have been betrayed by the Camp David accords, and by their own government...
Despite the majority assertion that Israel gained all it needed from this accord, the nation actually compromised significantly, giving up the peninsula that served as a buffer from its most powerful enemy and accepting the goal of a West Bank state. This compromise was necessary and good, as a Palestinian state is both justified in its own right and essential to peace. But the majority errs in placing the burden for future gains solely on the Israelis by advocating that the Arab states wait and see what Israel will do. It fails to realize that Syria...
...negotiators will try to work out a timetable for a two-phased Israeli troop withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. They will also seek to arrange the replacement of the Israeli military rule on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with a local Palestinian administration...
...vote of 85 to 19, with 16 abstentions, the Israeli parliament approved early today the Camp David Mideast 'framework for peace' and voted to remove the Jewish settlements from the Sinai peninsula, clearing the way for a peace treaty with Egypt...
JERUSALEM--The Israeli Cabinet yesterday gave Prime Minister Menachem Begin a strong show of support for the agreements he brought back from Camp David, voting overwhelmingly to evacuate Jewish settlements on the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for a peace treaty with Egypt...