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...disappointed that Sadat had not given one inch on that longstanding Arab demand. Nonetheless, they also had a strong new feeling that his trip had been so extraordinary that it was now their turn to respond in some creative way to the Egyptian President's gesture. Foreign Minister Dayan stressed repeatedly last week that Sadat had created "an hour of decision" for Israel and indeed all the Middle East. Said Dayan: "All the old concepts-proximity talks, shuttles-have fallen by the wayside and we have now been confronted with the need to decide, not just on technical matters...
...conference at which most procedural and some substantive issues had been agreed upon in advance to preclude the possibility of failure. The alternative was "Geneva Down": an unfocused, probably contentious conference at which even basic procedures would be subject to intense wrangling. At week's end Foreign Minister Dayan flew to West Germany for a scheduled round of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. Across the Middle East, rumors rebounded that he might meet there with Egyptian diplomats-or, possibly, even go later to neutral Rumania for a conference with his Cairo counterpart, acting Foreign Minister Butros...
...government is not in merely receiving Sadat in proper form, but in furthering the progress of this unexpected chance to break the diplomatic stalemate in the Middle East. The biblical rhetoric that Begin espoused must give way to a more flexible and realistic bargaining position. As Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said last week, Israel must quickly re-examine its past positions and develop its ultimate attitude on important questions such as its borders, the existence and location of a Palestinian state, and the nature of the settlement itself...
...rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million victims of Hitler's Holocaust and also laid a wreath at Israel's Unknown Soldier memorial outside the Knesset building. There was a working lunch with Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Sadat and his host apparently got along well personally. "We like each other," said
Maintaining that "no Arab must fear Geneva," Sadat has been amenable to almost every reasonable formula proposed for getting the parties involved back to Geneva. Although Syria balked, Egypt readily endorsed, with minor reservations, the working paper that Carter and Vance negotiated with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan between U.N. meetings in New York last month. In essence, this formula called for a united Arab delegation containing some Palestinian representation, but no known members of the P.L.O. There would be specific negotiations between six subgroups?Israel and Egypt, for example, or Israel and Syria?on the basis of U.N. Resolutions...