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...question settled, the Administration is now faced with the increasingly difficult task of getting the Middle East peace talks going again. Even before the Senate vote, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan insisted that the country's defense required permanent occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights. Said he: "The basic intention of the Arabs has not changed. They want to obliterate us." After the vote, Begin's ever firm attitude hardened still more...
...only too familiar in Washington. He had refused to concede, as his predecessors had done, that Israel's acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242 meant that it was committed to an eventual withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as from the Sinai and Golan Heights. He had declined to accept Carter's formulation, proposed in January on a trip to Aswan, that the Palestinians have the right "to participate in determination of their own future." He had adamantly opposed Carter's plan to sell advanced F-15 fighter-aircraft to Saudi Arabia...
Neither Foreign Minister helped matters. Arriving in Jerusalem, Kamel declared there could be no peace as long as Israel occupied Arab land, including the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, and the Palestinian people were denied the right of self-determination. "Time is of the essence," he said, "so let us invest it to the maximum and not just see it slipping through our fingers." Later that day, Dayan told a press conference that Kamel's statement was like "holding a pistol to our heads" and the Egyptian should take such statements "back to Cairo with him." Thus even before Vance...
Presumably Begin believes that if he bargains away the settlements in the Sinai, he will make it harder for Israel to retain other Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. But he must also realize that to remain adamant on so marginal an issue as the Sinai settlements carries enormous risks. It could destroy Sadat, the Arab leader who told the Israelis two months ago, "We really and truly seek peace." It could also lead to a fifth Middle East war. In behalf of the old goals and the old rhetoric, Menachem Begin seems prepared...
...parallels but on economic and political considerations. The approximately 90 settlements (20 of them in the Sinai) have cost about $1 billion to build. They are inhabited today by only about 11,000 Israelis: 3,000 in Sinai, 4,500 in the West Bank and 3,500 on the Golan Heights. In addition, about 50,000 Israelis have settled in the formerly Arab-held suburbs of Jerusalem. Altogether, their numbers are not great, but the settlers have attained a sizable degree of political power and strongly oppose territorial withdrawal. The question last week was whether Israel has launched...