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...resigned to a lengthy delay in the negotiations. One inducement to Egyptian patience is the prospect that elections next year in Israel may bring in a new and more flexible government headed by the Labor Party. Earlier this month, Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban and former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev visited Cairo to take part in a symposium on the Palestinian problem sponsored by the Egyptian magazine October. Sadat took the opportunity to meet with the Israelis and discuss their mutual concerns...
...There was a good chemical reaction between Sadat and Peres," Eban remarked afterward, adding that "we conducted relations, not negotiations." Peres appeals to the Egyptians because he is seen as being less dogmatic than Begin about Israel's need to control all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, he would bring to the negotiations none of the biblical fervor that fires Begin to claim the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan...
...Moshe Dayan resigned as Foreign Minister last fall in part because he was convinced that Begin's ultimate goal was to demand full sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the five-year interim period. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban argued that the settlements "squander the nation's resources at home and its dignity abroad without the slightest service to any authentic Zionist purpose." Eban is clearly right, and many Israelis would agree, but Begin seems determined to pacify the extreme nationalists who form part of his constituency...
...Orwell's savage parody of the Revolution, or Alexander Solzhenitsyn's three Gulags. But other excisions were mystifying. From the booth of the Association of Jewish Book Publishers, for example, inspectors confiscated a book of essays entitled The Holocaust Years, as well as ex-Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban's My Country. Among the 300 volumes left untouched were Eban's companion volume My People and Lucy Dawidowicz's volume The War Against the Jews, an analysis of the Holocaust...
...achievement is greater than the price," said former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, a member of the Labor Party...