Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's pique, as President Ford's reaction indicated, was directed mostly at Israel. Kissinger himself was particularly disappointed that the divided and insecure government of Premier Yitzhak Rabin was not bold enough to make more concessions to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who had risked his political reputation in the Arab world by undertaking the bilateral talks. The breakdown of negotiations meant that Jerusalem had lost not only the chance for accommodation in the Sinai but, more important, the opportunity of keeping the whole peacemaking process moving toward the kind of Middle East settlement that Israel has hoped...
...Aswan Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy told newsmen that "because of the intransigent position of the Israelis it was not possible for [the Secretary] to succeed. Consequently, the Israeli government bears the sole responsibility for this failure." Answered an Israeli government spokesman, "Egypt refused all offers, and that ended the talks...
...From Sadat's viewpoint, the big problem was Israel's insistence upon particular agreements concerning nonbelligerency, which, curiously, reminded one Western-schooled Egyptian diplomat of a cheeseburger. "Supposing," he told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in a kind of Big Mac analysis, "that you ask me for a cheeseburger and I flatly refuse to give it to you. You then say, 'O.K., don't give me the cheeseburger. But at least give me the bun. And perhaps the mustard and the cheese and the onion-and don't forget the meat.' That is how Israel...
That assessment, by a longtime confidant of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's, seemed to describe the complex problem facing U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week as he stepped up the tempo of his shuttle diplomacy in quest of a second-stage disengagement agreement...
...well wanted a piece of the peace. Kissinger was reluctant to have them too much involved. Sadat, on the other hand, had to try to get some promise of movement toward disengagement on the Golan Heights and a resolution of the future of the West Bank. Otherwise, the Egyptian President would be in trouble with other Arab powers for selfishly trying to go it alone...