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Begin lashed back at Sadat's suspension of the talks as "incomprehensible" and insisted that Israel would have to agree on when and where negotiations should resume. The cause of the latest flap was an apparent misunderstanding by Sadat of some doings in the Israeli Knesset...
...Egyptian leader declared that the Knesset had, almost covertly, passed a bill affirming that Jerusalem will forever remain undivided as Israel's capital. Sadat interpreted the measure as an Israeli ploy to keep the subject of Jerusalem's future out of the talks, even though the predominantly Arab eastern sector of the city was occupied by the Israelis, along with the West Bank and Gaza, during the 1967 Six-Day War. Declared Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali: "The fact that Israel passes such a law shows that the will to find...
...matter was not quite so simple. The Knesset did indeed give preliminary approval to a bill declaring that the integrity and unity of the Holy City shall never be impaired. But the offensively worded measure had been submitted by Geula Cohen, a right-wing firebrand M.P. bitterly opposed to the autonomy negotiations. In approving her bill, the Knesset sent it along for review by its law committee, which will probably bury it discreetly. Nor has Begin ever kept secret from Sadat his view that Jerusalem is the "eternal, indivisible" capital of Israel. Thus the Cohen bill should not have been...
...speech to the People's Assembly, "It is obvious that by May 26 we shall not reach definitive results, and I consider this very dangerous." But, he added, "it is our responsibility to complete the work of Camp David." When he learned later that afternoon of the Knesset's action on the Cohen bill, Sadat felt incensed if not betrayed. Following a strategy session with aides the next day, Sadat directed his Foreign Ministry to issue a statement denouncing the Israeli parliament's action and to halt all plans to resume the negotiations...
...Hebron. For more than a year, squatters from Qiryat Arba have illegally occupied the former Hadassah clinic in Hebron, where the attack took place. Israel's former Army Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, who is now secretary-general of the opposition Labor Party, argued in the Knesset last week that the Hebron attack would never have occurred if Begin's government had removed the Hadassah-clinic squatters as he had promised. Former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, in a television interview, charged that "some of the activities of the new settlers" had played a major role...