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...information office in Oslo followed the same theme last year, declaring, "There is no new policy by the PLO to recognize Israel...The declared program of the PLO is to bring about the destruction of the Zionist entity of Israel...
...that Zionist irredentism that distinguishes Begin from all preceding Israeli Premiers, and it is that policy that could make peace unattainable as long as he is in office. Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin were concerned with how long to postpone Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. What Begin is talking about is how long to postpone Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Even if he offers to do so indefinitely, there is no way that any Arab leader can make peace with Israel on those terms...
Many Jews are irritated by Sadat's overt public relations campaign to win the backing of U.S. opinion. But there are those who feel Sadat has every right to make his views known, and forcefully. Says Samuel Kaplan, of Washington, D.C., a board member of the Zionist Organization of America: "From Sadat's point of view, this kind of campaign is perfectly legitimate and understandable. We've been doing it for years. There's no reason why he shouldn...
There was some predictable anti-U.S. rhetoric, including a complaint by Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika about an "American-Zionist" plot to keep the Soviet Union out of the peace process. But when it came time to define what measures should be taken against Sadat, none was forthcoming. Concluded TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis: "Sadat so far has outsmarted the Arabs who oppose him because he continues to insist on a comprehensive settlement. They are clearly afraid that, despite the countless obstacles, Sadat will somehow pull off a settlement." Having gambled that he will fail, the anti-Sadat Arabs have...
Well, I suddenly found all the parties concerned-Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel-starting to quarrel and differ on the procedural papers. Syria said that if this is an American paper, it is a colonial and imperialist paper. If it is an American-Israeli paper, well, it is colonial, Zionist, imperialist-all these descriptions. I felt also, when President Assad sent a special envoy to me, that Syria was not serious at all about going to Geneva. The Soviet Union was starting its own tricks with the Syrians and with the Palestinians...