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...matter how exaggerated are Arab expectations of Carter's influence on Israel," Neff and Wynn cabled, "these nations sincerely believe that the only road to peace leads through the White House. The danger for Carter is that if he fails to produce peace, he will be blamed vehemently by the Arabs and the region will be set perilously adrift, possibly toward war. In a bewildered, bellicose mood, Israel quite conceivably could defy Carter's considerable leverage on that small country by opting for war. The Arabs have everything to gain if Carter's peace plan works...
...amounts to an American outline for peace in the Middle East, Carter has avoided so far the ominous possibility of another war, but he has also raised expectations, particularly on the Arab side, dangerously high. Meeting in Athens to compare notes on neutral ground, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn agreed that Washington's strategy carries great risks in case of failure...
...carried out under interrogation in Israeli prisons-cannot be proved. Individual Arabs have given vivid testimony of maltreatment. "I can assure you we don't have torture," answers Brigadier General David Hagoel, the West Bank military governor. "I am against torture completely." Hagoel admitted to TIME Correspondent Don Neff that occupation forces sometimes surreptitiously bury bodies of Palestinian terrorists. "Funerals can cause great demonstrations that go on for days," he said...
...night before the Israeli elections, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy had an exclusive interview with Shimon Peres, the man they expected to become the next Premier. The trouble was, admits Neff, "like just about everyone else, we had picked the wrong side...
...Neff, as to most Middle Eastern observers, "Menachem Begin's victory was more than an upset. It was a conundrum. What did it mean-for peace, for America, for Israel, for the Palestinians?" Our cover story this week, written by Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, assesses those questions. Along with it is the interview that Neff and Halevy had with Menachem Begin after his party's victory. Neff thought the security man guarding Begin's apartment looked familiar, and, says Neff, "he was. It was the same guard we had encountered a few days before at the office...