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...images still flash sharply through the mind: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stepping from his gold-and-white 707 upon Israeli soil; Israeli Premier Menachem Begin greeting him at the Knesset in Jerusalem; Sadat and Golda Meir exchanging good-humored banter; Begin's airport farewell to Sadat amid dreams of peace...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was brilliant," says Tali Bashan, 21, a political science student at Hebrew University, "but it was no argument for our making large concessions." Adds Geula Cohen, a Knesset member and an old comrade of the Premier's in the Irgun movement: "Begin didn't think. He gave away the sovereignty of the Sinai like a present, without getting anything in return...
...didn't keep a fallback position. He started from the end, apparently forgetting that negotiations are supposed to result in each side giving something. What else did he expect to give?" Former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point: "I believe Sadat's conditions in his Knesset speech were his opening position. But Begin started out with Israel's end position. What was he thinking of?" Even Begin's resolute cheerfulness is being criticized. "His unflagging optimism," declares former Chief of Staff Haim BarLev, "is unfounded...
...Hammer acted after receiving complaints from two members of the Israel Broadcasting Authority's board of directors that the screening was untimely, given the negotiations under way with Egypt. But the unprecedented cancellation of a TV show prompted protests of censorship from a coalition of artists, authors, lawyers, Knesset members, journalists and TV technicians. TV newsmen vented their feelings by letting Israeli screens go dark for 45 minutes on the day after Hammer's order. An evening program by Israeli singer Shalom Hanoch, as a result, was lost...
...Knesset, free-speech advocates decried Hammer's decision, while conservatives supported it, regardless of party. The expulsion of the Arabs, said the Labor Party's Amos Hadar, "is the heart of the [Middle East] problem. The film will be a weapon in the hands of Arafat." Said Kalman Kahane, a member of the Poalei Agudat Israel religious party: "I'm definitely for democracy. But when there is an excessive democracy which harms the state's interests, I'm ready to put up with some sort of limitation...