Word: egyptians
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...timing of the attack left no doubt about the terrorists' purpose: to sabotage any attempt by Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to move toward a peace that would ignore or bypass Palestinian interests. In fact, the attack will make any peace at all more difficult. Certainly, it will reinforce Israel's resistance to any kind of Palestinian state on its borders, make the Israelis distrust all Arabs more than ever, and stiffen Begin's stance toward making further Israeli concessions in any peace talks. The attack seemed to be the opening salvo of a new policy...
...over his proposal to link a sale of warplanes to Israel with similar sales to Egypt and Saudi Arabia-a plan that disturbs U.S. Jewish groups. Their main concern is the 60 advanced F-15 fighterbombers intended for the Saudis. In hopes of getting both the Saudi and the Egyptian sales past Congress, the White House has included them in a package deal with the planes for Israel. But last week, as Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman was in Washington for talks on a big new Israeli arms request, the President received a letter signed...
...close the process is to collapse. At his press conference, Carter said he had "no intention" of pressing Begin to make additional concessions. His main purpose, he said, would be to convey Egypt's latest negotiating position to the Israeli Premier and attempt to get direct Israeli-Egyptian talks resumed. He will advance Sadat's argument that the Egyptian President needs some indication of movement on the West Bank and Resolution 242 before talks can proceed. Specifically, the U.S. would like to see the Israelis put a moratorium on any new settlements...
...Egyptian civilization, Anwar Sadat has often observed, is 7,000 years old, but the country's modern history as a sovereign state dates only from 1922. Sadat is both a witness to many of the major events in Egypt's recent history and one of the primary figures who shaped them. Born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile village of Mit Abu el Kom, he was inspired as a youth by the exploits of Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey. Sadat was twice imprisoned for his revolutionary activities-the second time...
Holtzman visited the Mideast last December and January during what she called "the heady days right after Sadat's trip to Israel." She praised Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's "contagious optimism" and said she was "very heartened by the enthusiasm of the Egyptians...