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...that Brzezinski sent Carter in February 1979, after the Shah's fall. Brzezinski proposed that the U.S. form a protective umbrella over North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. It would include signed understandings with several governments in the area?at the very least with Egypt, Jordan and Israel???and an American military shield that would stretch as far west as Morocco. If Carter is still thinking along those lines, the shield now has been extended as far east as Pakistan...
Unfortunately for Israel???and for the prospects for peace in the Middle East?Arafat's pleas seemed to be falling on receptive ears. His archenemy, Abu Nidal, a onetime Fatah member who broke away to establish his own terrorist gang, sent word from Iraq that he was willing to agree to a truce with Arafat, whom he had previously accused of "treason." If the Palestinians manage to patch up their quarrels, they will be able to pay more deadly attention to the Jewish state...
...Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt with a military arsenal as large and as sophisticated as the one it has provided Israel???not so Egypt could launch an attack on the Israelis, "but because the arsenal they have allows them to be so arrogant." On Sunday, after a meeting of his cabinet, Begin announced that in retaliation Israel would not send a delegation to the military talks, which were scheduled to resume...
...visionary statesman than has been generally perceived. And he has shown in the past that he is capable of surprises. In 1971, which he boldly and perhaps foolishly declared would be a "year of decision" for the Middle East, he offered to search for a peace settlement with Israel???a proposal that the Jerusalem government of Premier Golda Meir turned aside. The following year he abruptly evicted Soviet military advisers and experts from Egypt in a gesture toward the West that Washington failed to follow up. Then in October 1973 he caught Israel off guard with his Yom Kippur attack...
...normal relations could not be restored immediately after a peace treaty was signed. He has cited as precedent the 22 years that it took for the U.S. to acknowledge a Communist regime in Peking. Lately, however, Sadat has suggested in interviews that the evidence of real peace desired by Israel???open borders, an exchange of diplomats, trade?could take place within five years after a treaty rather than a generation. By visiting Jerusalem even before a treaty is signed or even in sight, Sadat has signaled that perhaps no such hiatus will be necessary...