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Rogers, who dislikes tough talk, pressed ahead for the cease-fire that his lawyer's intuition told him was possible. Mrs. Meir, in the course of a foreign policy review before the Knesset, had revealed that Israel was prepared to accept Resolution 242. So, it turned out, was Nasser. In a television interview that the Secretary of State raptly watched in his Bethesda, Md., home, Egypt's President said that he would agree to a limited ceasefire. On the assumption that neither leader would be able to reject proposals stipulating what each had already said openly, Rogers dispatched...
...initiative for peace," maintained Begin. "It is an initiative for Israel's destruction." The Polish-born Begin, who was commander of the Jewish terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan. In the current crisis, Begin sensed that...
YORAM ARIDOR is a young Tel Aviv lawyer and Knesset member of the Gahal Party who believes that "to accept the Rogers plan is to accept the principle of withdrawal, and to us that means waiving our rights to the Israeli motherland. Judea and Samaria [Jordan's West Bank now occupied by Israel] belong to us. In Sinai we do not have the historical reasons for staying but security requires that we do not withdraw from Sinai. Three times in 20 years we have had to fight there...
...Meir, wearing a new turquoise midi that was far brighter than her mood, delivered a 30-minute foreign policy speech to the Knesset that sounded like a subtle no to Washington's plan. A temporary ceasefire, Mrs. Meir said, would only permit the Arabs to "prepare for the renewal of the war in a more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed...
Still, Mrs. Meir's Knesset speech was not a definite rejection. Nor have Israel's opponents thus far rejected Rogers' proposals. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who arrived in Moscow for a week-long official visit, met three times with Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, principally to discuss the U.S. overture. At the United Nations, Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik indicated that Moscow might be amenable to something less than complete Israeli withdrawal. Russia's Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, made the same point six weeks ago in the private discussions...