Word: israells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Menachem Begin was adamant. Even before he took off last week for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter, Israel's flinty Premier made it clear that he was not planning any concessions to anyone, anywhere, under any pressure. If he accepted the new U.S. proposals for an Israeli-Egyptian peace settlement, he declared, there would no longer be any peace treaty. "It would in fact turn into a treaty of war," he said. "And war needs no treaties; in war, cannons are needed." Arriving at Andrews Air Force Base 14 hours later, he remained just as stern as ever...
...Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had begun by his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in November of 1977. Since then, even since Camp David, drastic changes had jeopardized prospects of peace in the Middle East. The latest of these, the Islamic revolution in Iran, had cut off half of Israel's oil supply and brought new strength to the Palestinians. And Carter was no longer the hero of Camp David, but a weakened leader, beset by upheavals from Viet Nam to Iran to Africa. A New York Times-CBS poll showed that a mere 30% of those asked approved...
...Israeli-Egyptian agreement to a grant of autonomy for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, there was no sign of compromise at all. The U.S. has come out in favor of the Egyptian demand for a target date of autonomy one year after the treaty is signed. Israel refuses...
...policy. "There is time enough for that," Brown said. The fact is that Brown's background in foreign affairs is just about as bare now as Carter's was before he became President. Brown hopes to start catching up, with crash tours of China, the Soviet Union, Israel and Western Europe...
...cited by the panelists were many and varied. Iran is clearly lost as an ally. Saudi Arabia, the linchpin of the entire area, is very different from Iran but also highly vulnerable. Egypt, supported by the U.S., in part because of President Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives toward Israel, has serious economic problems, and corruption that is "worse than under Farouk," according to retired Career Foreign Service Officer Jim Akins. Turkey once again is the sick man of Europe, sliding into bankruptcy and desperately in need of financial...