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Essential Step. Despite all the agony the agreement has caused, it is still only an interim settlement, and the easiest part to solve of the many-sided Arab-Israeli conflict. There is much less room for give on the Golan Heights, which are disputed by both Israel and Syria; both countries appear intractable on the issues. A solution to the Palestinian problem is nowhere in sight, and there seems little hope for compromise on ownership of the West Bank of the Jordan. Jerusalem is coveted by both sides for its religious shrines and its symbolic authority, but the Israelis...
Even if Israel and Egypt do reach an early accord, Middle East tensions will not automatically diminish. On at least one other Israeli-Arab border-the Golan Heights-they will probably increase. Another U.N. mandate on the Golan expires in November, and there is no immediate prospect of any disengagement talks on this front. Syria and Israel both suspect each other of preparing pre-emptive attacks. Last week also, Israel accused Jordan's King Hussein of massing troops for a possible attack-even though the border is quiet and record numbers of Palestinians are crossing the open bridges...
...removal of the U.N. troops in the Sinai. The whole problem of ending the mandate, as one Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem put it, is "a plate of legal spaghetti." Legally, the U.N. Security Council supervises both the peace-keeping forces in the Sinai and the observers on the Golan Heights, and last week Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim began summoning Council members to discuss how the mandate could be kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could not remain in place if one side demanded their ouster. If they were forced out by Egypt, the situation could be ominous...
DIPLOMACY. Though Cairo will be allowed to insist otherwise for the sake of its relations with Arab allies, Kissinger has assured Israel that no "linkage" will be required between the Sinai negotiations and major movement on the Golan Heights and on the future of the West Bank. Washington will continue its refusal to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepts Israel's right to exist and stops terrorist acts like the bomb blast in Jerusalem two weeks ago that killed 14 people. (In revenge, Israeli forces last week attacked Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon, killing at least...
...briefly. He declared the reopened waterway "a tributary to peace and a channel to prosperity and cooperation among men." At the same time, he said, Egypt had to reiterate "its determination to perform the sacred duty of liberating its land and all Arab lands still under occupation in the Golan Heights, Sinai and Palestine, and recovering usurped Arab rights." Canal workers broke into shouts of "Allahu akhbar"(God is great...