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Getting to the airport for a final shuttle to Aswan proved far from simple. With snow blocking the road, our hosts suggested going by train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The railway cars dated back to Turkish times, or so Eban claimed. But as we bounded through the snow-covered Judean hills, it seemed an appropriately surrealistic ending to three months of frantic diplomacy. On the way, Eban and I talked. Would the Arab nations ever genuinely accept peace with Israel? That was Arab nations ever
...consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador's offices in Tel Aviv...
...convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit to Tel Aviv, in order to attend to the Polish crisis...
...that Gaddafi has not tried. "Show me one country which is stricken by the terror disease, and I will show you the Libyan connection," says Yehudit Ronen, a scholar of Libyan affairs from the Tel Aviv-based Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. "Gaddafi has his arm everywhere." Revolutionary movements backed by Gaddafi have ranged from the Palestine Liberation 0rganization to the Irish Republican Army, from Basque and Corsican separatists to the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines. He runs a dozen or more training camps for guerrilla warfare, with advisers supplied by East Germany and Cuba...
Faced with this growing discussion about the Saudi proposal, the Israelis reacted swiftly and strongly. At a Tel Aviv press conference Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon blasted both the plan and its authors. "It's very hard to sell the Saudis to us," he said sarcastically. "They are the biggest supporters of the terrorists, after the Soviets." He added a warning that "Israel will treat the Saudis exactly as we treat every confrontation state." Only a few hours earlier, Israeli air force jets had made Sharon's point in a different fashion. They carried out a highly visible...