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...accomplished, it has blown not just a fresh breeze but a whirlwind through the diplomacy of the Middle East. It was scarcely a month ago that Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem. Last Wednesday, exactly 26 days later, Egyptian and Israeli delegates were sitting down together in a Cairo conference room, in the very shadow of the pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington to meet with President Carter, a sudden summit conference arranged...
...days went by, the pressure on Israel to react grew and grew. What was needed from the Israelis was concessions that would be sufficiently important to allow the negotiating process to continue-if possible, with the support of Syria and the other Arab states that chose to boycott the Cairo conference. Begin recognized the challenge and, according to aides, relished the idea of going down in history as a peacemaker. Since their Jerusalem meeting, he and Sadat had continued to communicate in secret. But Begin also knew that the hours were running short. Said his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan...
...most part, Arab diplomacy remained paralyzed by outrage and indecision, as Cyrus Vance discovered during his quick stopovers in six Middle East capitals. He had believed that Jordan's King Hussein would be amenable to joining the Cairo talks at a later stage. Instead, Vance found, the King was determined to remain an uncommitted moderating force, but would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view...
Americans displayed little inclination to criticize Jerusalem for failing to offer specific concessions to Cairo. In the polls, 56% felt that the Israelis went as far as they should have; only 7% believed they should have given the Egyptians more at the time of the visit. Nonetheless, 36% had not yet made up their minds, apparently waiting to see what Begin would do next. Americans believe overwhelmingly (77%) that it is important for the U.S. to continue to support Israel. But there is more division on the question of whether Israel is ready to make the concessions that...
Carter dispatched Vance to the Middle East with these revised tidings: to counsel moderation and sound out the possibilities for bringing Syria back into the negotiating process and to emphasize that Washington is not pushing for a separate deal between Cairo and Jerusalem. The U.S. had hoped to avoid an additional trip by the Secretary of State this year, fearing the effect of another spectacular without results. But in the end the President decided the U.S. must give Sadat all the help it can, particularly after the other Arabs rejected Sadat's invitation...