Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the cabinet's vote, one senior official said: "It will be most difficult for even Begin himself to convince us to make more concessions." Some Middle East observers wondered whether Begin was in full control of his Cabinet; others speculated that he might privately welcome some of his colleagues' truculence. At week's end, after summoning his chief Washington negotiators to Toronto for consultations, Begin made plans to fly home to discuss the state of the negotiations with his parliament...
Nobody was angrier about the Israeli Cabinet's latest action than Jimmy Carter. In his Kansas City news conference late last week, the President declared with accuracy: "There has never been any doubt in my mind, nor President Sadat's, nor Premier Begin's, that one of the premises for the Camp David negotiations was a comprehensive peace settlement." In fact, the President continued, Begin himself had said that he did not seek merely a separate peace treaty. But when the latest draft of the tentative agreement was referred to the governments back home, said Carter, "sometimes the work that...
...Allah, save Jerusalem." Assembled outside Mecca last week for the beginning of the annual hajj (pilgrimage), 1.6 million Muslims prayed in fervent unison for the "liberation" of East Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. A few days earlier, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had given a rousing speech at an election rally in Jerusalem for local candidates of his Likud Party. He declared that a united Jerusalem was as much the capital of Israel as Washington was the capital of the U.S. "The only difference is that Washington has been a capital for 200 years...
...another sign of their permanent presence, the Israelis have moved the offices of the Ministry of Justice, the national police and the Jerusalem district court into the eastern sector of the city. Begin has even talked of moving the Premier's offices there. In addition, Israeli governments have built seven huge, utilitarian apartment complexes on the hills and ridges that surround East Jerusalem. Only Jews live in these housing projects. Their population, currently about 52,000, is expected to reach 120,000 by 1988. The Israeli economy has provided jobs for thousands of East Jerusalem's Arabs in the western...
That is a fair statement. For instance, one thing the government hasn't done so far is to equalize services, although Mr. Begin has promised to do so several times. We still have half of the Arab city without sewage disposal and we are lacking schools and roads...