Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Begin arrived for breakfast, and Carter offered him Vance's proposals, which were not very different from those that Dayan had been urging the Israeli Cabinet to accept. The main points: ? Israel will drop its demand for preferential rights to buy guaranteed quantities of Egyptian oil if Cairo will sell oil to Jerusalem on nondiscriminatory commercial terms. The U.S. will extend to 15 years the five-year commitment that it made in 1975 to guarantee Israel's supply of oil if that country is unable to meet its needs on the world market. ?Egypt will drop its demand...
...were prompted by Jimmy Carter's private assurance to congressional leaders that the U.S. price tag for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be only "a little over $4 billion" in additional aid stretched over three years. Administration officials later raised this estimate to nearly $5 billion, with Israel and Egypt each getting about $2 billion more for military aid and $500 million more each for economic support over the three years. Israel now gets $1.8 billion and Egypt $.8 billion annually, making them the largest U.S. aid recipients...
...because unofficial predictions as high as $15 billion had been published. The President's approximations were apparently based solely on the basic commitments he had made to carry out the treaty terms. They include paying part of the cost of moving military equipment from two major airbases that Israel must abandon in the Sinai and establishing similar bases within Israel in the Negev desert. A U.S. survey team estimated the cost at $1 billion, and Israel has predicted that $3 billion more would be required to make the new bases operational...
...third treaty commitment involving a possible cost to the U.S. was the American guarantee that it would provide oil from its own resources if Israel cannot buy its normal oil supplies on the world market. Of greater concern in Congress than the cost, if any, is the likely adverse public reaction to sending oil to Israel if there are shortages within the U.S. The Administration argues, however, that any Israeli oil deficiency would be an insignificant portion of U.S. supplies...
Perhaps the biggest question is whether Carter can resist the requests from both Egypt and Israel for aid beyond the amounts involved in supporting the treaty. The defense ministers of both nations arrived in Washington last week to present their shopping lists. Egypt is seeking help to buy 600 M-60 tanks, 300 F-16 fighter aircraft, 70 transport planes, and up to eight destroyers or submarines. In nonmilitary aid, Egypt wants funds for housing, agricultural production and a new telephone system. In arms alone, Israel wants various tanks, naval guns, missile systems and armored personnel carriers...