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Sadat made an important concession to the Israelis by journeying to Jerusalem, saluting the Israeli flag and battle banners, standing before the assembled Knesset and declaring on behalf of his fellow Egyptians: "We welcome you among us with full security and safety . . . We accept to live with you in a permanent peace." That was tantamount to Egyptian recognition of Israel, which Israel has long demanded as a condition for reaching a settlement...
Sadat sees the declaration of principles as an essential step toward an eventual Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, because the declaration would, in effect, affirm Arab sovereignty over the lands. He said to the Knesset, "Our land does not yield itself to bargaining . . . We insist on complete withdrawal from these territories...
Israel understandably does not want to give up territory that it feels it needs for security. But the U.S. has long argued that it should be possible to satisfy Israel's security requirements without a full-scale Israeli occupation of Arab territories. And Sadat, for one, told the Knesset: "We agree to any guarantees you accept." Egyptian officials have indicated that they would even be willing to permit some kind of Israeli military presence on the West Bank for a limited time (perhaps up to ten years), if it did not undermine the principle of Arab sovereignty. Last week, moreover...
...million operating budget from the government, has asked for an additional $15 million subsidy. But Prime Minister Menachem Begin, committed to freer enterprise, so far has been no more forthcoming with El Al than he has been with Anwar Sadat. Says Gad Yaacobi, chairman of the Knesset Economic Committee: "The government will be very reluctant to give El Al this subsidy until it proves it will make every effort to become more efficient...
Some harsher critics in the Knesset would like to close down the company and start a new one, a move that would allow it to reorganize, terminate its labor contracts and prune the work force. Though such extreme action is unlikely, it remains "a possibility," says Managing Director Mordechai Hod, who was commander of the Israeli air force during...