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Unexpected events created by instant diplomacy no longer seemed impossible after Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. By his visit and a tough but compassionate speech to the Knesset, he had acknowledged Israel's right to exist in a way few Jews ever expected from an Arab leader. He and Premier Menachem Begin had made a mutual pledge: "No more war." The Egyptian President made it clear that this promise was a conditional one-namely that there would be no more war if Israel accepted a peace agreement that included the return of all Arab territories occupied since...
...many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that 1) the Palestinian people exist, and 2) they have legitimate rights. In his sometimes unorthodox use of language, Carter helped induce others to take a fresh look at the hidebound diplomatic formulas. In short, he shook things up in a salutary...
Precedents exist for such limitations on sovereignty. In 1955 Austria agreed to remain neutral and to limit the strength of its military in order to gain independence from the occupying powers (U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union). Japan's constitution allows only for self-defense forces that cannot be used in aggressive acts...
Sadat's initiative and the journey itself required a great deal of personal courage. On a more substantive level, the Sadat trip shows that Egypt and Jordan, the only other Arab nation to endorse the journey, albeit unofficially, have finally recognized Israel's right to exist, obviating a problem that has blocked the path to a peace settlement since the establishment of the Israeli state...
...publishers who were "an independent spirit in the community, who had the power and the disposition to blow the whistle on the people in that community." A crusty editor willing to risk all for what he believes best for his town is an honored American institution. Such paragons still exist among local papers, agrees John C. Quinn, Gannett editorial director. But Quinn knows others where "the editorial position is discovered after the publisher comes back from lunch," presumably after consulting the local fat cats...