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Begin was obviously signaling loudest to Syrian President Hafez Assad, one of the Arab leaders most opposed to Sadat's journey. Said the Premier: "There is no justification for the poison that comes from our northern border." While stressing that Israel disagreed with some points that Sadat had raised?the return of East Jerusalem to Arab control, for instance?Begin insisted that Israel and the Arabs should at least talk and negotiate. "Let us continue the dialogue and grasp one another's hands. Israel does not wish to rule...
...concern about the Carter plan. There is no easy way to judge the Administration's argument that the most probable alternative to Geneva is more bloodshed. Of course, talk of war is as much a part of the daily Middle East vocabulary as those diplomatic code words. Syrian President Hafez Assad's contribution last week was particularly grim. "Naturally, I don't want to negate the chances of the peace altogether," he said in Damascus. "But I still say if we [Arabs and Israelis] don't go to war again, it will be a miracle...
...Israeli perception is basically correct. Ever since his Clinton, Mass., call last March for a Palestinian "homeland," Jimmy Carter has become more and more convinced that the Palestinian issue is, as President Hafez Assad of Syria calls it, "the mother question" in the Middle East...
...final Syrian checkpoint is at Zahrani, twelve miles north of the Litani River. There a large color poster of President Hafez Assad beams down at the red-bereted paratroopers. South of the checkpoint the road is deserted. The fields are desolate, showing no sign of care or life. Even the crows have flown to richer lands...
Palestinians On this "mother issue," as Syria's President Hafez Assad calls it, the two sides seemed wider apart than ever. The Arabs insist on Palestinian representation in Geneva. But Begin last week reiterated Israel's refusal to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which he called a group of "demented genocidists...