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...news. In Lebanon, foreign soldiers troop the streets of Beirut in hopes of keeping that country's feuding factions from one another's throats. In Israel, a nation shaken by the question of its culpability, by omission or commission, for the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, Prime Minister Menachem Begin faces the greatest challenge yet to his five-year rule. Against this backdrop, TIME begins excerpting on the following pages the memoirs of an American President, who, as he writes, "spent more of my time working for possible solutions to the riddle of Middle East peace than on any other...
After a few weeks, Menachem Begin, then known to many Americans as a right-wing radical leader, was elected to head Israel's government. Israeli citizens, the American Jewish community
...Menachem Begin. He is a man of almost unshakable beliefs. He finds it very difficult to change his mind. It was torture for him to agree to remove the settlers from the Sinai. He has a single-minded commitment to annex permanently all the other occupied territories. He has a tendency to treat the Palestinians with scorn, to look down on them almost as subhumans and to rationalize his abusive attitude toward them by categorizing all Palestinians as terrorists...
...close my thoughts were not on the cutthroat trout, the delicious food or the beauties of nature. It was late at night, and I was very tired. I was studying a thick volume, written especially for me, about two men: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. In a few days, on Sept. 5, 1978, I would welcome them to Camp David. Ours would be a new approach, perhaps unprecedented in history. Three leaders of nations would be isolated from the outside world; an intensely personal effort would be required of us. I had to understand these...
...mind of his own. If I had told Billy, "Don't ever talk to the Libyans any more," he would have said, "Jimmy, you go straight to hell. I'll talk to whom I choose. You're not my boss." He would then have proved to me publicly, as Menachem Begin does so well in dealing with the President, that he cannot be told what to do. Billy said the extent of my defeat could not have all been attributable to him. I agree. At the most, it may have cost me one or two percentage points...