Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battlefield, some 17 miles north of Camp David. As the group viewed monuments and century-old cannons, Carter attempted to lighten the mood by joking that the gun had a range of three miles, vs. 300 to 400 yds. for the cluster bombs that the U.S. sold to Israel after the 1973 war. Sadat and Begin somehow managed a laugh. But reporters accompanying the entourage noticed a marked lack of warmth between the Egyptian and Israeli leaders; they barely spoke to each other during the excursion. When Sadat did talk to an Israeli, it was to Weizman, his favorite member...
Begin, of course, also could ill afford to antagonize the U.S., which has been providing about $2 billion in aid annually to Israel. But in any disagreements with an American Administration, the Israelis could always count on considerable backing from the politically powerful U.S. Jewish community. American Zionist leaders had already been told by Begin's aides that after Camp David, they "might be called upon" to undertake a "massive" public relations campaign to defend Israel's position. But even with such backing inside...
...Sadat can offer the two "frameworks," signed as they are by Jimmy Carter, as evidence of the benefits of working with the U.S. Sadat will point out, moreover, that years of relying on Moscow did not help the Arabs regain a single inch of land from Israel. The Camp David achievements could enhance Washington's influence in the Middle East just at a time when Moscow was beginning to exploit the situation in the general area. Now there is no chance at all of a rapprochement between Sadat and the Soviets. As a Russian in Cairo remarked: "Even if Sadat...
...will surely see as never before that it is the President and only the President who can give an Administration, indeed a nation, direction and force. Jimmy Carter by every account was the one who moved Israel and Egypt, who almost without hope held them together when they threatened to fly apart, who abandoned his Sunday-school pieties for the hard realities of geography and people, yet never lost his basic goodness, perhaps his greatest strength...
Hussein reacted with dismay to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's apparent willingness to sign a separate peace treaty with Israel. If a separate peace is signed, Hussein said Saturday, "there will be very serious repercussions...