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...would also create machinery for direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The diplomats recognized, of course, that no such resolution would be effective until the combatants were ready for it. Kissinger was kept closely informed of Israeli attitudes toward such a prospect by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly...
...missiles in the Middle East is matched by an equally angry war of words in the belligerent capitals and in New York City, where both sides have traded rhetorical blows at the United Nations. Last week TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont had separate interviews with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed El Zayyat. The questions put by Lamont to both diplomatic spokesmen were identical. The answers were alike only in their intransigence...
...Eban: There was no peace settlement in 1967. Egypt, Jordan and Syria were very content to accept a cease-fire proposed by the United Nations Security Council, which saved them from further military defeat. In November 1967 the Security Council adopted Resolution 242, calling for the establishment of permanent peace, which was to include withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 and the establishment of "secure and recognized" boundaries that were to be agreed on. The deadlock exists because the Egyptians have constantly refused to submit the boundary question to negotiation...
...Eban: The momentum of war may carry our forces beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines in [order to] repel the Arab threat. The Arab states can still set a cease-fire on the basis of the previous ceasefire, then get a peace negotiation on the basis of Security Council Resolution 242. But they will find our attitude on the boundary and security arrangements deeply and traumatically affected by the damage and loss they inflicted on us on the Day of Atonement...
...Palestinian problem is even more difficult to contend with. The Israelis claim that permitting one and a half million Palestinians to return to an Israel with pre-June 1967 borders would dilute the predominantly Jewish character of the population. In his book My Country, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban notes that if Israel maintained her post-1967 borders until 1990, Arabs would constitute forty per cent of the total population. The Israelis will have to reach a compromise with the Arab element in their country. The abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step...