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...Gaza would begin within one month of the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and 2) elections for local governing councils for those territories should take place by the end of 1979. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance presented the plan to Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport as the Israelis were preparing to leave for home. Begin was, predictably, unenthusiastic; Dayan surprised his Premier by telling Vance: "If the Egyptians are willing to accept [this proposal], I am ready to accept...
Carter walked across the street in the autumn sunshine for lunch at Blair House. U.S. Ambassador Roy Atherton excused himself from one session and strolled to the Oval Office to fill in the President. Israel's Dayan and Weizman took the short journey to the White House, inhaling sparkling air and enjoying the fall coloring of the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether at the White House or Blair House, the coffeepots perked merrily...
Sometimes the talk got tough. Asked to select three for lunch with Carter, Dayan replied, "We want four, and if we don't have four, they can have lunch without me." Four it was. After all, another plate on the table among neighbors is no big deal. Now and then Carter grew weary of the lawyering. Around the hearth in such intimate circumstances, good men, he thought, should quit nitpicking and get down to real meanings. "That's as much as you are going to get," he told the Israelis at one point. "That's clear...
What Washington did not anticipate was that the Israelis would violate the spirit, if not the letter, of Camp David by announcing plans to thicken their settlements while the Washington talks were still going on. Indeed, the move came as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman were returning to Washington at midweek to resume negotiations with Egypt and the U.S. Moreover, in a startling statement that was calculated to antagonize not only Carter but every leader in the Arab world, Begin proposed that his own office, as well as that of his Foreign Minister, should be moved...
...well with each other, both in the Blair House talks and during informal meetings at the Madison Hotel, their common residence. But as the week passed, the Israelis became somewhat irritated that the U.S. was not being more evenhanded, especially while the Blair House talks were going on. Thus, Dayan's semipublic comments about trouble brewing were partly intended to warn the Carter Administration not to go too far in siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least say thank you." But he also seemed...