Word: knesset
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Hussein's moves complicated matters not only for Kissinger but also for Israel, which still hopes to deal with the King over disposition of the West Bank. Premier Yitzhak Rabin appeared before the Knesset last week for a debate on Israel's Middle East policy. He insisted that "the Palestinian issue can and must be solved," but added that Israel would negotiate "with Jordan and no one else. We shall not allow the emissaries of terror to gain a foothold of terror among the people of the West Bank...
...DANGER OF WAR: It is my understanding that a majority of members of the Israeli Knesset are against any withdrawal from the West Bank. This leads me to believe that the Israelis are only asking [Premier Yitzhak] Rabin for time to prepare-asking for six months-by whichtime they will be politically and militarily in a position to demolish the effects of the October war. Their chief of staff, Mordechai Gur, declared that in the next war the element of surprise will be on the side of Israel. They have made it clear they intend to make a pre-emptive...
West Bank. War is not inevitable, of course, and some of the belligerent talk might have been timed to catch Kissinger's ear. Both sides were ready to hear the Secretary's proposals and make their own. Rabin last week told the Knesset that "the government has not defined the extent of territorial compromise in various sectors, but it has laid down that in return for peace we are prepared for territorial compromises." Specifically, as a starter, Rabin suggested the return of the West Bank city of Jericho to Jordan in return for a nonbelligerency pact...
...time as a visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs. Eban has had time on his hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
...despite Henry Kissinger's cease-fire negotiations. Another indication of ill will was the series of charges and countercharges last week between Israel and Syria concerning the torture of prisoners of war who had been held by either side until the cease-fire accord was signed. In the Knesset, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres detailed a long list of torture incidents. He charged that some of the repatriated Israeli P.O.W.s had had fingernails ripped out by Syrian captors, while others had been beaten, burned and maimed. At least two P.O.W.s, said Peres, died after being tortured...