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...guns of Israel and Egypt have been silent along the Suez Canal for more than a year now. Last week, as the cease-fire that has preserved a tense and tentative peace in the region moved into its second year, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark talked to Israeli Premier Golda Meir in her Jerusalem office about the outlook for negotiations and the possibilities for a lasting peace. The interview preceded Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's call for Israel to consider itself the "established government" of the Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war. Premier Meir later dissociated herself from that...
...interim solution involving the reopening of the Suez Canal still alive, or are we flogging a dead horse...
Battle of Destiny. Despite the deployment of troops, a blowup of the conflict between Syria and Jordan is still an extremely remote possibility. Far more worrisome would be the revival of hostilities at another Middle Eastern battleground, the Suez Canal. Last week Editor Hassanein Heikal wrote in Cairo's authoritative Al Ahram that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had given Washington until early this week to produce diplomatic results with the Israelis. Did that mean Egypt would resume its "war of attrition" if decisive results were not forthcoming, particularly concerning an Israeli pullback from the canal...
...resistance to making concessions to achieve a permanent peace, as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco rediscovered during a ten-day visit to Israel that ended last week. Sisco's primary objective was to find ways to reach an interim settlement leading to the reopening of the Suez Canal, thereby helping to ease Egypt's humiliation over the continued occupation of its territory by Israeli forces. The way for Sisco's trip was paved by an assurance given by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Don Bergus, the senior U.S. diplomat in Cairo, that Egypt was still...
During the Arab siege of 1948, Israelis encouraged each other with the saying "Yihye tov" (It will be good). During last year's fighting along the Suez Canal, they said, "Yihye beseder" (It will be O.K.). Now they don't say anything, because things are better than ever before...