Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's despairs right now is the hardened state of the Israeli mind. In his secret moments the President has examined and re-examined his own attitudes, and he believes fervently that his background and his heart-religiously, intellectually-would never allow him to turn away from Israel. What to do? Speak out in indignation against the intransigence of Menachem Begin? Or quietly go back to Camp David and talk and wait? Even while suffering dramatic domestic political losses, Carter comes down on the side of patience-the essence of courage for these hours...
Watching Iran's turmoil from thousands of miles away in Morocco was one very interested observer: deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Iran's government, declared Foreign Minister Karim Sanjabi, would press for the Shah's extradition "until there is no place he can go except for Israel or South Africa." Indeed, the Shah's sojourn in Morocco may soon end. Last week his host, King Hassan II, formally recognized the Bazargan government. The crew of the Shah's royal 707 jet flew the plane, complete with its gold-plated bathroom fixtures, back to Iran...
...Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had not, of course, been invited to the talks. But their warm and well-photographed embrace in Tehran injected a note of urgency into Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's attempts to persuade Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil to resolve their differences on the treaty before it was too late...
Constitutional Law in Israel--Penina Lahav, Lecturer in Law, Hebrew University Room 4 International Legal Studies Building...
Egypt is understandably anxious to avoid finding itself totally isolated as a peacemaker in the Arab world, should the talks with Israel collapse. For Brown and for Carter, to whom the Secretary will report immediately on his return to Washington, the hours of talks with Sadat offered an alarming perspective on just how volatile the Middle East might be without a peace accord...