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...people of Gaza and the West Bank can pass freely through Israel? The same is true of Jerusalem. Everyone now realizes that the partition of Jerusalem is not a solution. We have to live there together: a Jewish quarter here, an Arab quarter there; a Jewish area like Beersheba, an Arab area like Gaza. They must be mixed with one another...
...Bedouins call such payments paltry. Scoffs one spokesman: "Eighty-three dollars-that's two sacks of flour." They protest the arbitrary denial of judicial appeals. Says Dr. Yunis Abu Rabiya, a respected Bedouin physician in Beersheba: "How can a country that calls itself democratic pass a law that denies the elementary citizen's right of appeal to the courts?" The Bedouins also charge that the proposed law is based on outright "racism" because it is aimed exclusively at Arabs. The Bedouins have a case: last week Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon began long and detailed negotiations to compensate...
...ceremonies at El Arish marked the beginning of an extraordinarily hectic weekend in Middle East peace keeping. With Secretary of State Cyrus Vance participating, talks between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza began in the desert town of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev area. The opening discussions were slightly clouded by a last-minute dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty...
...after a day of cordial talks, the two leaders were able to announce the next steps in the peace process. On May 26, Israel will return the Sinai town of El Arish to Egyptian sovereignty. On the following day Sadat and Begin will fly together from El Arish to Beersheba in the Israeli Negev desert for further discussions...
...where and when the talks would be held. Egypt had proposed Ismailia, the town on the Suez Canal where Sadat met with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin last December; Israel wanted at least some of the talks to be held on its soil and suggested the Negev capital of Beersheba. Carter finally proposed Washington as a compromise. Shortly after the Camp David summit ended, the Egyptians suggested that talks might begin on Oct. 11-which is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Remembering that Egypt had started the 1973 war on Yom Kippur, the Israelis refused. Washington tactfully proposed...