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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat responded swiftly to the Knesset's bill on a unified Jerusalem. He denounced the vote as a violation of the spirit of Camp David and indefinitely suspended Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on Palestinian self-rule. Sadat also sent a secret message to Begin, presumably stipulating a number of conditions that Israel must agree to before the talks could be resumed. Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called for a summit meeting of Arab heads of state to deal with the latest Israeli move...
...Washington, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie reacted sharply to both the U.N. resolution and the Knesset vote. The General Assembly's action, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, amounted to nothing less than mischief making, while the Jerusalem bill was "a diversionary tactic." Privately, Administration officials were even more concerned about the drift of events because the provocations and counterprovocations, which to some extent seemed to be outside the control of the participants, raised serious questions about the durability of the U.S. Middle East peace policy in the national-election hiatus. U.S. policymakers have to wonder whether...
...days preceding the inflammatory Knesset action were a time of fear and anger for the Israelis. On Sunday, in the Belgian city of Antwerp, one or more Arab terrorists hurled two hand grenades at a group of 40 European Jewish children and youths on their way to a holiday in the Ardennes. A French boy, 15 was killed, and 18 others were injured, some critically...
...most Israelis the bill was a way of letting off steam, a shaking of the fist at what they regard as a frontal attack on their right to the city of Jerusalem as the focus of both their nation and their faith. What took place in the Knesset was a clash between the demands of rational diplomacy and the inner needs of national identity. The nationalist needs prevailed...
...other legislative action last week, the Knesset passed a bill that forbids public expression of sympathy for a "terrorist organization," meaning the P.L.O., and another that gives the Interior Minister the right to revoke the citizenship of anyone committing a "violation of allegiance" to the state of Israel. The measures were directed at Israeli dissidents and at Arab university students who have demonstrated for Palestinian rights. In a separate development, Begin's Justice Minister, Shmuel Tamir, resigned last week as the erosion of the Likud coalition continued...