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WASHINGTON--The Carter administration has sent a "strong protest" to Israel in response to the Israeli government's decision to build three military outposts on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an administration official said Tuesday...
...Emirates, assuring them once again that his initiative was aimed not at a separate Egyptian-Israeli peace but at a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. He also reaffirmed his determination to link any pact to progress on an overall settlement involving the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
What most distressed the Israelis seemed to be Vance's support of Sadat on the linkage issue, especially because it would connect the Egyptian-Israeli treaty with the establishment of West Bank and Gaza autonomy. Complained Naftali Lavie, an aide to Dayan: "This is strict blackmailing and not a linking." The Israeli reaction seemed extreme. For one thing, Sadat is willing to accept a target date merely as a goal instead of as a fixed timetable. For another, although Sadat now wants to delay the exchange of ambassadors, all other aspects of normalization would proceed as scheduled, including trade, cultural...
Sadat's insistence on linking in some way the Egyptian-Israeli treaty with movement toward autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza is, in part, a strategy to woo Arab moderates. Saudi Crown Prince Fahd specifically warned Sadat: "The extent of linkage will determine the extent to which we can support Camp David in the Arab world...
...Israel's insistence that the pact should take precedence, in time of conflict, over Egypt's obligations to other Arab countries. The more nagging question was Sadat's demand for linkage of the treaty and the proposed negotiations over the future of the West Bank and Gaza, linkage that he and President Carter believed Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had agreed to at the Camp David summit...