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About the best the Administration can hope for from Carter's talks with Sadat and Begin is that the three leaders will agree to instruct their negotiators -Sol Linowitz of the U.S., Interior Minister Yosef Burg of Israel and Premier Mustafa Khalil of Egypt-to convene in Washington for a final round of intensive negotiating. The May 26 date could readily be waived if substantial progress is being made. But if these tripartite talks turn out to be unsuccessful, White House officials are unenthusiastic about calling another Camp David summit meeting and thus putting the President on the spot...
...discussions with Linowitz at the Israeli resort of Herzlia, Egypt's Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israel's Interior Minister Yosef Burg agreed on a number of low-level categories of responsibility that will eventually be exercised by a self-governing council representing Palestinian Arabs in the occupied territories. Linowitz happily declared that "very significant progress" had been made in the negotiations. Nonetheless, Egypt and Israel remain far apart on many key issues. Among them: security, control of land and water, and the status of East Jerusalem...
Small wonder that the Egyptians immediately rejected the Israeli plan as unacceptable. Instead, Cairo proposed a Palestinian council of 80 to 100 members with full legislative, executive and judicial authority over the territories. Israel's chief negotiator, hard-line Interior Minister Yosef Burg, complained that this amounted to a "Palestinian parliament." He told TIME: "The Egyptians look upon autonomy as merely a corridor leading to Palestinian statehood. We are very allergic to anything that smacks of statehood...
...course of the trip. The Israelis have been nervous about rumors that the Carter Administration is determined to accelerate the pace of the autonomy talks and reach an agreement that would be acceptable to the Palestinians, Jordanians and Saudis. "Israel is ready to pay a price for peace," declared Burg, "but Israel is not prepared to be the price of peace." Last week the White House assured the Israelis that it was still opposed to the creation of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza...
Since then, Dayan has chafed at the performance of the Israeli delegation under Interior Minister Yosef Burg, a hardliner who was chosen to placate the National Religious Party and other right-wing members of the Likud coalition. The Foreign Minister, as Dayan acidly put it, was left to handle such marginal matters as "cocktails and ceremonies." He had played a vital role in the negotiations that led to the Camp David accords last year, and he reacted angrily to being on the sidelines this time. Even if he had not resigned, Dayan would not have attended last week...