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What most seriously divides the two sides is the issue of Palestinian self-determination. Sadat wants the Israelis to accept the "Aswan summit language" favored by Sadat and Carter at their January meeting: a declaration by both sides that the Palestinians should be allowed to participate in determining their own future, and that the Palestinian problem must be solved "in all its aspects." Begin has budged slightly from his previous position, but still wants to restrict Palestinian participation to those living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sadat insists on including those in the diaspora; otherwise, he argues, the problem...
...acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242 meant that it was committed to an eventual withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as from the Sinai and Golan Heights. He had declined to accept Carter's formulation, proposed in January on a trip to Aswan, that the Palestinians have the right "to participate in determination of their own future." He had adamantly opposed Carter's plan to sell advanced F-15 fighter-aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Washington officials were quite aware too that the Palestinian terrorist raid into Israel and the powerful Israeli retaliation...
...January 1974 Kissinger arrived [in Aswan] and the first disengagement of forces agreement was signed. The United States had played the role of mediator between us and Israel...
...negotiating the Aswan agreement I had only one thing to focus on. I didn't want more than to maintain the real magnitude of my victory on the ground. I didn't bother about the Israeli Deversoir pocket because I knew that they were my prisoners on the West Bank [of the Canal] and that their presence there meant their death. On the basis of defining and maintaining the real magnitude of my territorial victory, agreement was reached. Yet I was still in great mental anguish, because all the powers wanted to negate my victory. The United States...
Kissinger arrived in January 1974, and kept shuttling between Aswan and Tel-Aviv. But at length he came to me and said: "It seems, unfortunately, that we have reached a dead end. In Tel-Aviv they are reluctant to reach an understanding...