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...vicious; in fact, the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described last week's attempted attack on the kibbutz as a "suicide mission." As a result, the Israelis have apparently adopted a policy of pre-emptive strikes and hot pursuit. As Premier Menachem Begin told the Knesset, "We shall attack these murderers at every opportunity. We shall give them no rest...
Begin was in a notably euphoric mood when he reported to a somewhat skeptical Knesset on his latest travels. With a touch of awe in his voice, the Premier declared that "they played the Hatikva [the Israeli national anthem] in Cairo." Shouted right-wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east...
...notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations, be called by the biblical name of Judea and Samaria was something else. Without this change he could not sign, insisted the Premier. He clamped his jaw. The Knesset had approved the treaty with the biblical terms, explained Begin. Inured to such tactics, Carter suggested a footnote to cover Begin's objections. But it could not be a Begin footnote or a Sadat footnote. "I'll write in a footnote," said Carter. "I accept," beamed Begin...
...picture is everywhere. Often he is pictured with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, his hero, who died in 1970. The "traitor" Sadat is frequently shown in the Libyan press with Moshe Dayan's face in the background-a photo taken during Sadat's speech to the Knesset in 1977. Yet Gaddafi has no official title or post in the Libyan state or government, and he has never allowed himself to be promoted above colonel. He prefers to be addressed as "Brother Muammar " by fellow Arabs...
...Under any circumstances I will leave politics at the age of 70. That is not far away- I will be 66 next summer. I will leave the government, I will leave the Knesset, and I will start writing a book about my generation. This is an exceptional generation in our history. It can be compared almost to the biblical generation. I must not make any comparisons; it's forbidden. But whatever they in biblical times and we in our times achieved, was achieved through suffering and heroism. Therefore I contend that we are a quasi-biblical generation...