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...under curfew by Israeli authorities. When East Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council called for a protest march to the Temple Mount, Israeli riot police and troops moved in and arrested 32 of the leaders before the marchers had taken ten steps. Shaking with fury, a prominent East Jerusalem resident, Anwar Nusseibeh, declared: "The transgression on the Temple Mount was not against us; it was against the values of everyone who believes in God. All we intended to do today was to offer our respect for those who died...
...Palestinian people, taken for granted by the democratic countries of Western Europe, buffeted by the policies of its own prime minister and viewed even more blithely by the United States. Israel can be excused for perceiving its isolation and believing that it has shouldered an unreciprocated (except for Anwar Sadat) burden for peace. The burdens of war by contrast have readily been accepted by all parties in the Mideast conflict, whether extremist or expansionist, pan Islam or pan Arab revolutionary or reactionary...
...October 6, 1973, Nasser's successor, Anwar el-Sadat, chose Yom Kippur, Israel's holiest day of the year for a surprise attack. The United States was also preoccupied with Watergate. After teetering on the brink of defeat. Israel managed to beat back the attack and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 managed to negotiate a disengagement agreement using exhaustive shuttle diplomacy...
...remains equally important to remember that Begin has made sacrifices for peace that dwarf any massive case of jet lag suffered by the U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State. The history of the Sinai since 1948 shows that peace is not easily purchased; any Israeli (and Anwar el-Sadat) will testify to that If the Arab regimes are as deeply aggrieved by the plight of the Palestinians as they claim-and truly view the problem as transcending their own nationalist and other considerations--then it is time to disavow impossibilism...
Unseen by the audience, half a dozen plainclothesmen, some armed with light antitank weapons, stood between the President and a column of tanks. South Korea's President had not forgotten that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed last October during a military parade. "Since Sadat," said one U.S. observer, "these military exercises make some folks nervous...