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...late-night discussion in New York City with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance about a new Geneva peace conference (TIME, Oct. 17). Dayan gave his harsh account of the talks-Washington insisted they were "direct," perhaps even "blunt," but far from "brutal"-during a Knesset debate on the working paper on Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at Geneva. As proof to the contrary, he read...
...Begin reminded the Knesset, the P.L.O. has never repudiated its national charter, which calls for the "liberation" of all Palestine and the elimination of Zionism. Nor has the organization renounced the strategy of terror that led to the murder of innocent civilians at Munich and Ma'alot. If Israel were to permit the creation of a Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank and Gaza -something it is not prepared to do -there is a clear danger that the fedayeen would use those enclaves for further attacks on Israel proper. Moreover, the P.L.O. is hopelessly divided in its leadership...
...special summer session, the Knesset passed by an overwhelming vote (92 to 4) a resolution categorically repudiating the P.L.O. as a "discussion partner for the state of Israel in any Middle East peace negotiations." As a bit of parliamentary sleight of hand, the resolution was proposed by the Democratic Movement for Change so that the Labor Party could back it without seeming to support Premier Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition. A similarly worded Likud resolution had earlier been defeated by the D.M.C. and Labor opposition. The political maneuvering, however, hardly obscured the fact that there is a solid...
...Arabs got the message, and did not like it. Said a high-ranking Egyptian official after the Knesset vote: "The Israelis have thrown down the gauntlet to President Carter. The Israelis don't believe, he means to change American policy. Carter will have to make it crystal-clear how America really feels about war and peace, Arabs and Jews. Begin is talking tough. We think Carter will answer in kind...
...pledged to the security of Israel." Moreover, many U.S. Jews may be impressed by the fact that liberal and moderate Israelis are themselves rapidly revising their once hostile views of the new Premier; some observers think that Begin's minority government could win an absolute majority in the Knesset (parliament) if a new election were held today...