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Gemayel also indicated last week that he wants to use the U.S. as a buffer between Lebanon and Israel in negotiating agreements that appear to be essential in restoring a stable and independent country. He opposes Jerusalem's demands for a peace treaty between the two nations on the grounds that it would alienate the rest of the Arab world. The logical starting point, therefore, is a U.S.-negotiated agreement to withdraw all foreign forces from Lebanon. Neither Syria nor Israel, however, wants to be the first to pull out, and Israel is asking for solid assurances that...
...Israeli withdrawal began. But he did not totally reject the idea that the P.L.O. might depart at the same time as a mutual Syrian-Israeli withdrawal. Among the security arrangements Shamir did insist on was establishment of a 40-km security zone north of the Israeli border as a buffer against future P.L.O. incursions...
...buffer between the Indian Ocean and Saudi Arabia, Oman (pop. 948,000) is on a permanent state of alert against its neighbor to the southwest, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen, which has the only Marxist regime in the Arab world. Until early 1976 South Yemen fueled a rebellion inside the Dhofar province of Oman, and South Yemen still keeps nine infantry and three artillery battalions, plus 60 Soviet-made tanks, just across the Oman border, as well as 160 more tanks in the rear. The Soviets are expanding an air base at Al Ghaida...
...Israel who preceded him. His present control over the Sinai was derived from wars that Israel did not start. That is Begin's perspective. On the settlements, Begin sincerely wants them to continue. One of his goals is to isolate Gaza from the Sinai, with the settlements as a buffer. Since you have now promised not to let major military forces go beyond the Sinai passes to threaten Israel, there is no longer a legitimate reason for him to maintain the settlements. We do not agree with him and he knows it, but so far he persists. It is painful...
Begin then outlined his previous position on the Sinai, emphasizing his most disturbing point, that the Israeli settlements on Egyptian soil were a necessary buffer between Gaza and Egypt. He next addressed the issue of a separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews...