Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back off" from its determination to work for an Arab-Israeli settlement. He also categorized as "very disappointing" the Israeli government's refusal to concede that sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza will ever be relinquished. The President then observed, disapprovingly, that Israel had also "rejected an Egyptian proposal [on the territories] that has not yet even been made." Carter was referring to a declaration by the Israeli Cabinet that it "unreservedly rejects" what were reported to be the principles of a proposal that was being prepared by Egypt...
Leaked accounts of the Egyptian plan had indicated that Cairo would suggest that the West Bank be placed under Jordanian rule and Gaza under Egyptian control for five years. During that time, a final settlement for the two areas could be negotiated, along with security arrangements for Israel. Jerusalem has its reasons to be wary of such a scheme: it would require Israel to give up the occupied lands, its major bargaining chip in negotiations, even before talks turn to the crucial issue of the future status of the territory concerned. But respect for diplomatic niceties should have persuaded...
Despite Israel's pre-emptive rejection, Egypt still intends to formally submit its West Bank and Gaza scheme to the U.S. later this month. With both Egyptian and Israeli plans then on the bargaining table (Jerusalem submitted a 26-point proposal last December), the Carter Administration hopes that a quickened tempo of negotiations might narrow the differences between the two sides. This was a theme stressed by Vice President Walter Mondale, who arrived in Israel last week on a four-day good-will visit in honor of the country's 30th anniversary. While publicly stressing the "solid...
...draws on the views of experts in the U.S., Israel and Egypt, rests on three assumptions. One is that continuing Israeli rule over the West Bank and Gaza, with their overwhelmingly Arab populations, would prove impossible in the long run. The second is that substituting an imposed Jordanian and/or Egyptian sovereignty over the area, except during a brief transition period, would equally frustrate Palestinian nationalist yearnings, and thus preclude a genuine Middle East peace. The third is that Israel's security needs could be met without its troops occupying the West Bank and Gaza...
Mara, the rabbi's daughter, is an antic rebel. Bribed back to New York from Israel, where she distinguished herself by disco dancing and hobnobbing with the arty underground, she and her beloved Sudah, an Egyptian-Israeli artist cum hippie cum pacifist, spend days assembling highly unorthodox outfits for their Orthodox wedding. Mara's veil is an old tea-stained lace tablecloth that gets caught on her steel-rimmed glasses; Sudah is resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon...