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...days after Sadat's marathon spasm of rhetoric, Israeli Premier Golda Meir delivered a comparatively brief (44-minute) statement to the Knesset. Mrs. Meir's speech was carrot after stick. "Boldness and political responsibility have been rewarded," she began. "Thanks to this policy, Israel is stronger today in every respect." But she ended with a low-key leader-to-leader appeal to Sadat: "Let us meet as equals and make a joint supreme effort to arrive at an agreed solution. We have not declared permanent borders, we have not drawn up an ultimative map, we have not demanded...
...into war, he may very well decide to try again for a settlement. The possibilities for accommodation will be clearer this week after Egypt's President elaborates on his decisions in speeches to his people-and Israeli Premier Golda Meir, after due consideration, offers her appraisal to the Knesset...
Eulogists promised "the strongest and most cruel" retaliation for Kanafani's assassination. Expectedly, they put the blame on Israel, where some Knesset members had called for individual reprisals for the Lod attack; indeed some Israeli politicians had singled out Kanafani by name. One day after his funeral a bomb exploded in a lavatory at Tel Aviv's busy central bus terminal. There were no deaths but eleven people were injured; Israeli police arrested several Arabs as suspects and repulsed an angry crowd that tried to manhandle them...
...always insisted that it went to war in 1967 over the fundamental issue of survival. To bolster that argument, Premier Golda Meir last week declassified for the first time the brief five-paragraph resolution of that year that approved pre-emptive strikes against neighboring Arab states. Outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, an angry crowd of young Jews and Arabs retaliated with signs declaiming DOWN WITH THE OCCUPATION and A NATION CANNOT BE FREE THAT OPPRESSES OTHERS. Their argument, and that of some other critics lately, is that Israel was merely being expansionist...
...Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir placed the blame on Lebanon, which she accused of "openly enabling the centers of the terrorist organizations to reside in their midst." Lebanon-recalling that Israel had attacked Beirut airport in 1968 and destroyed civilian planes in retaliation for a fedayeen assault on an El Al plane-braced itself for Jerusalem's revenge. Its 18,000-man army was alerted, and the airport put under tight guard; antiaircraft guns could be seen swiveling beside the runways...