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Depending on how Mondale fares, Washington hopes to arrange a July meeting in Europe, probably in London, between Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel. Also attending: U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Following that, Vance might soon find himself flying to the Middle East for the fifth time since he took office 17 months...
...seemed, for a while. The Middle East peace initiative that began euphorically with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem appeared to have come to a wrenching halt. First, Sadat abruptly recalled his Foreign Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, from negotiations in Jerusalem involving a declaration of principles for a comprehensive settlement. In retaliation, Israel announced that it would not return negotiators to the parallel military talks in Cairo, which dealt with possible Israeli troop withdrawals in the Sinai...
With Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's encouragement, Sadat delivered a fairly moderate address to his parliament explaining why he had called Kamel back from Jerusalem; two days later, Begin accordingly made a reasoned speech before the Knesset in which he insisted that Israel was seeking "an atmosphere in which calm negotiations can be pursued...
Both leaders, though, have a low tolerance for presumed insults. Before recalling Kamel, Sadat had been angered by the ill-advised toast at a Jerusalem banquet during which Begin indirectly compared Palestinian demands for self-determination to Nazi expansionism during the '30s. Begin was outraged by anti-Israeli criticism in the Egyptian press that struck him, and many of his countrymen, as antiSemitic. "Even if the devil, the angel of death, would come to [the Israelis]," said one Cairo paper, "they would bargain with him over every minute detail." In an even uglier charge, another declared that "the dream...
...somewhat more realistic atmosphere. Atherton, after a week's hard work with the Israelis, flew to Amman to meet Hussein, and was then scheduled to proceed to Cairo to discuss with the Egyptians some suggestions for improving the text of the declaration of principles. In fact, Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian entity. The Egyptians favor the words used...