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Next day, fulfilling a vow he had made to himself (see interview), Sadat prayed in Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest places. Then the son of Ishmael stood before the sons of Isaac in the Israeli Knesset and formally declared that the deep, violent enmity between them had somehow passed...
...proves unfruitful, there remains a danger that both sides might once again gear up for war. And yet it seems unlikely that the past's bitter patterns of stagnation and violence could return. The very memory of Anwar Sadat at Ben Gurion Airport, at Al Aqsa mosque, at the Knesset, will serve as an enduring reminder that a better way for the Middle East is possible...
Whatever thoughts he might have had privately, Begin in his public statements did little to encourage the dreamers. During a Knesset debate last week over the proposed Cairo summit, he took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some...
...apparently believes Israel must make a generous response to Egypt is Begin's own Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Some observers fear their disagreements on policy could lead to at least a temporary paralysis of Israeli diplomacy. In his Knesset speech, Begin insisted that Israel was not seeking a separate peace with Egypt or attempting to "drive any wedges between Arab countries." On a four-day visit to West Germany, where he conferred with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, visited the former Nazi death camp at Bergen-Belsen and viewed 30 ancient Egyptian and Coptic relics on display in Bonn, Dayan...
...Washington could claim to have foreseen, much less suggested, Sadat's spectacular gesture. Word of his willingness to go to Jerusalem caught the Administration utterly by surprise. When Sadat stepped on the podium in the Knesset to deliver his speech, Jimmy Carter's chief troubleshooter for the Middle East, Cyrus Vance, was airborne at 30,000 ft. off the coast of South Carolina heading for a long-scheduled visit to Argentina...