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...Israeli maneuvering on Jerusalem is coming at a time when Sadat's foreign policy appears to be subtly changing. At the U.N. last week, for instance, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butros Ghali, forcefully denounced Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and later voted with other Arab states on the Palestinian resolution. There are also signs that the Arab boycott against Egypt is beginning to give way. In June there were 68,000 foreign Arab visitors to Egypt, nearly twice as many as in the previous June; most were from Saudi...
...Delegates from each side last week ended three days of preliminary talks, unable even to reach agreement on the agenda, with visceral expressions of hostility. At issue was the status of Jerusalem. As U.S. Delegate Herbert Hansell listened in obvious discomfort, Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali told reporters in Cairo that "Jerusalem is an integral part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel refuses to discuss it." Israeli Minister of Justice Shmuel Tamir tartly responded that "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and therefore it is not a matter to be negotiated at the autonomy...
Egypt said it welcomed the European initiative. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali called the principles contained in the Venice declaration "compatible" with the Camp David accords and said: "We have no objection to any contacts the Europeans may seek in the common quest for peace." That left Israel, which, to no one's surprise, bluntly rejected the European action, especially the gesture toward the P.L.O. "It is certainly not a constructive act that can be conducive to peace," snapped a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official. "It can only complicate the peace process." Palestinian reaction was cautious...
...subject of Jerusalem's future out of the talks, even though the predominantly Arab eastern sector of the city was occupied by the Israelis, along with the West Bank and Gaza, during the 1967 Six-Day War. Declared Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali: "The fact that Israel passes such a law shows that the will to find a political solution [to the Palestinian problem] does not exist...
...also refers to the Palestinians only as a "refugee problem.") Sadat has always rejected the idea of multiparty conference under U.N. auspices because he does not want the Soviet Union to have an important role in the Middle East negotiations. But in the light of recent events in Israel, Ghali said cryptically, "Egypt will be studying different alternatives...