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Only a week earlier, a distressed Anwar Sadat had told journalists that he was disappointed and embarrassed by Jimmy Carter's comments rejecting the concept of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. But after a 45-minute talk last week in Egypt's southern town of Aswan, the Egyptian and American Presidents once more proclaimed themselves in agreement. Sadat went so far as to say their views were "identical...
...form of a federation of Palestinian and Jordanian states under his Hashemite crown. But since he does not want to arouse the ire of radical Arabs by seeming to covet the West Bank against the will of the Palestinians, Hussein proposes a plebiscite for the West Bank and Gaza under U.N. auspices...
Self-rule v. self-determination for the West Bank and Gaza...
...Middle East peace drive into an icy spin. In a conversation with news correspondents on a nationwide television hookup, Carter declared that Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had taken "a long step forward" by offering self-rule to the Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip; only a week earlier he had told Begin in Washington that many of his proposals had not gone far enough. Then, almost in passing, Carter added that the U.S. could not countenance "a radical Palestinian state in the heart of the Middle East." That was a position that...
After Begin presented the Israeli proposals for Sinai, the West Bank and Gaza, the Egyptian looked at his watch and announced: "I think we worked hard today. Let us take a break before lunch and make a small trip." Even the drivers and bodyguards had been given no warning of this excursion and had to scramble to their cars. Sadat ushered Begin into the front seat of a Cadillac and asked Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to climb into the back. To everyone's surprise, Sadat got behind the steering wheel...