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Setting out on April 28 and visiting Geneva, Algiers and Alexandria, I arrived on Thursday, May 2, in an Israel in turmoil. In January I had been hailed as a messenger of peace. Now I was welcomed with angry street demonstrations and signs spelling my name in Arabic???as if I were an Arab representative. Most of Israel yearned for both peace and the physical security of territory, and it could not decide between its longing and its fears. This schizophrenia was well exemplified by the masseur in the King David Hotel who gave me a rubdown with a violence...
...afternoon, Sadat mounted the rostrum of the Knesset to deliver?in Arabic???a 57-minute speech notable for its rhetorical passion. He had come to the Knesset, the President said, not to sign a peace treaty but to break down the "barrier of suspicion, fear, illusion and misinterpretation" that for so long has prevented the two neighbors from even talking about peace. In the strongest acknowledgment ever made by an Arab leader of Israel's right to exist, Sadat said, "You want to live with us in this part of the world. We welcome you in sincerity." Sadat promised that...
...Fatah, the largest, has an estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic???was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly...
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