Word: hosni
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Most governments, including Egypt's, were convinced that the Israeli withdrawal would be completed on schedule. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has tried hard to assure the Israelis that Egypt will not turn hostile after the withdrawal has been completed. Says he: "We shall be as committed to peace after April 25 as we have been before...
...nervous symbolism. Particularly state visitors. Thus French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially carried a beribboned sheaf of flowers to the eternal flame at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem last month, but he politely refused to go anywhere in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem. When Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak balked at extending his state visit to Jerusalem out of fear of appearing to condone Israeli control, there was talk for a time of his dashing through the Israeli capital without spending the night, a bizarre compromise that failed to satisfy anyone. Begin finally put off Mubarak...
Although angered by Israeli actions, the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made an effort to restrain its public criticism of them. Egypt feared that intensifying the controversy over the West Bank might give the Israelis an excuse for not handing over the last third of the Sinai on April 25. Egypt also does not want to give Israel any reason to back out of the continuing Camp David talks on autonomy for the Palestinians. For similar reasons, the Reagan Administration was keeping silent. The tension on the West Bank, said one U.S. diplomat, was something that Washington "just...
...Israel starting April 25. On that date, Israel will fulfill a key provision of the Camp David peace agreements by returning the remaining 7,490 sq. mi. of the Sinai that it has occupied since 1967. Even as troubles flared in the West Bank, and as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continued to dodge an invitation from Prime Minister Menachem Begin to visit Israel (with a mandatory stop in Jerusalem, which Mubarak wants to avoid), the formal peace process between Egypt and Israel was moving ahead on schedule...
...many Israelis, the French visit was a welcome, if too brief, diversion from the continuing tensions in the region. Earlier in the week, Israel had abruptly dashed hopes for an expected visit to Israel this month by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The reason: not wanting to grant implicit recognition to Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, Mubarak had refused when the Israelis insisted that he visit the ancient city. In that case, the Israelis declared, Mubarak need not come...