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Officials in both Cairo and Washington cautioned against any expectations of spectacular or decisive results from Sadat's visit. But despite all the efforts to keep the discussions private, the main concerns on the minds of both leaders were no secret. Flying to the U.S. on Sadat's gleaming red, white and black Presidential Special, Egyptian officials admitted their dismay at the recent course of events. On Sadat's trip to Washington last April, Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state...
Helped along by the amiable rapport that Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman has developed with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, the two sides made some limited progress last week at the second round of the military talks in Cairo. At the outset, nobody was particularly optimistic, but in three days of talks the delegates narrowed the gap toward a Sinai settlement. The Egyptians reportedly suggested that the Israelis could keep their settlements in the Rafah salient of the northern Sinai for a limited time (the exact period to be decided later), as part of a U.N. buffer zone...
...compared Palestinian demands for self-determination to Nazi expansionism during the '30s. Begin was outraged by anti-Israeli criticism in the Egyptian press that struck him, and many of his countrymen, as antiSemitic. "Even if the devil, the angel of death, would come to [the Israelis]," said one Cairo paper, "they would bargain with him over every minute detail." In an even uglier charge, another declared that "the dream of Zionism, its ambition and philosophy, is the philosophy of Nazi Hitlerism." Begin was particularly incensed by two columns in al Akhbar, the Arab world's largest paper...
...answer, in essence, was that Egyptians could hardly be anti-Semitic since they are themselves Semites. One political cartoon in the influential al Ahram pointedly advised Begin: "Don't make excuses. We are not antiSemitic. We are anti-you." The affair became slightly farcical when the Cairo press fell to speculating over whether the Egyptians were not in fact an older and purer strain of the Semitic family than the Israelis. Then Sadat announced that he had no objection to observing "a quiet period" after so much angry rhetoric; the anti-Israeli press campaign ended almost instantly...
...tempers cooled, both sides prepared to resume negotiations in a somewhat more realistic atmosphere. Atherton, after a week's hard work with the Israelis, flew to Amman to meet Hussein, and was then scheduled to proceed to Cairo to discuss with the Egyptians some suggestions for improving the text of the declaration of principles. In fact, Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West...