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...problem. In fact, one leading Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "We suspect the Israelis are making so much of the Sinai settlements in order to establish the principle of settlements in the occupied territories-and later to apply that principle to the West Bank and Golan Heights. Their interest in the Sinai settlements is mainly symbolic." Dismissing the Sinai settlements as a minor issue, another well-informed Egyptian asked: "Why not just run the Egyptian flag up over them and forget about them...
...with the backing of the U.S. When Henry Kissinger began his shuttle diplomacy to negotiate a Sinai disengagement, Sadat wrapped him in the full Arab embrace and called him "my dear friend Henry." But the momentum died. A Geneva conference was delayed. The Syrians postponed a disengagement on the Golan Heights for months while they quibbled over details. Then U.S. policy became paralyzed by Watergate and the collapse of Richard Nixon's authority. When Gerald Ford became President, Sadat tried again for a peace agreement. But a poisonous war atmosphere started spreading once more. Sadat next risked what he called...
...leverage with which to seek Israeli concessions. To the chagrin of Washington and the outrage of most Arabs, Begin's government had encouraged new settlements in the occupied territories. All told, there are now 51 Jewish settlements on the West Bank, 19 in the Sinai, and 26 on the Golan Heights. The U.S. maneuvered for a Geneva peace conference, but the process degenerated into procedural nitpicking, much of it on the key issue of who would represent the Palestinians. Sadat believed that if everyone continued quibbling over what he called "a word here, a comma there," he would...
...methods and perhaps on certain actions or incidents-but divorce between two brother countries, never." There was another small sign last week that Assad has not given up on Geneva. Without Syrian objection, the U.N. Security Council approved a six-month extension of the truce-observer force on the Golan Heights...
...would obtain what it has consistently demanded: recognition and acceptance from Arab states, and security-guaranteed not only by its own forces but by U.S. and perhaps other states' as well. There would be international peace-keeping forces under U.N. supervision in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights-which Israel and the Arabs could monitor. In addition, Israel and the U.S. would negotiate a treaty, comparable to the mutual defense pact with Japan or NATO, that would pledge Washington to move to Israel's defense in case of attack. Arab states, which worry about Israel...