Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel vs. the Bedouins
...soon clear that Young had become too great a liability for a White House that has been striving to demonstrate that it is capable of national leadership. Not only had Young's deception gravely embarrassed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but the meeting with the P.L.O. had enraged Israel and threatened to derail U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. American black leaders, on the other hand, were angry at Carter for so readily accepting Young's departure, and they hinted that the President might pay for his action with lost black votes. Several of them also blamed...
...Security Council Resolution 242, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist as a state. Strauss basically concurred, but added that the U.S. favors "a reaffirming and a building on" of 242 with a new draft that could cite 242 and include the Camp David language recognizing the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." He told the Premier that the U.S. "might go forward with a resolution of its own in the U.N." along these lines...
From Jerusalem Strauss flew to Egypt, where President Anwar Sadat stressed that any new U.N. resolution should not interfere with the autonomy talks. As Strauss was returning to Israel on Sunday, Begin's cabinet declared that it "rejects unequivocally" the U.S. resolution on 242. Such an initiative, said a cabinet spokesman, "contradicts the commitments of the U.S. to Israel." With an impasse thus threatening, there was speculation in Israel that yet another Begin-Carter-Sadat summit might be needed to revive the peace process...
...lying about his age, he boarded an Irgun ship at Marseille and sailed for the newly proclaimed state of Israel...