Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public posturing and cynicism on both sides masked a subsurface momentum, however gradual, toward an interim agreement on opening the Suez Canal. "There is still life in this possibility," Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban told the Knesset, "even if agreement is not certain." As one high U.S. official put it: "The mirror image on both sides is a desire to move with deliberation in order to avoid the misunderstandings that have marred such efforts in the past...
...President Anwar Sadat, "will be decisive in our destiny." Some Israelis fear that a misstep could mean the end of the Jewish nation. Despite such qualms, Israeli Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet last week agreed to return to peace negotiations with Egypt and Jordan, and the Knesset endorsed the decision by a 77-27 vote. The nays came from representatives of right-wing parties...
...Palestinian refugees and possible supervision by outside peace-keeping forces will be negotiated en bloc. Egypt, adopting a "programmatic," one-step-at-a-time approach, wants an agreement on Israel's withdrawal from occupied lands before it negotiates further. But Mrs. Meir, in a speech to the Knesset, emphasized that until the whole package is tied up in a signed peace treaty, "not one Israeli soldier is going to be withdrawn from the administered territories...
Friendly Persuasion. The metamorphosis of Moshe Dayan was causing repercussions in Israel. Three months ago Premier Golda Meir flatly stated that "unless the original position is restored, Israel will not be able to participate" in the Jarring talks. Last week in her Knesset speech, Mrs. Meir indicated that Israel is pondering participation. "I was never prepared," the Premier explained, "to undertake that our struggle would lead to the fulfillment of our just demand in its entirety...
...particularly sensitive. Mrs. Meir's government has publicly insisted that it will not talk with the U.N.'s Jarring until Egypt removes its newly emplaced Soviet-built missiles from the Suez Canal Zone. Israel's Cabinet was startled, therefore, when an opposition member said in the Knesset last week that he had heard about the Hussein-Allon talks and demanded to know why Israel's parliament had not been briefed on them. His question was erased from parliamentary records, and censors refused to let newsmen report...