Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historic visit to Israel. To keep alive the hopes that blossomed with his dramatic initiative, Sadat invited all the parties concerned, including Israel, to a Cairo summit to discuss and perhaps resolve issues standing in the way of a reconvened Geneva peace conference, including the thorny matter of Palestinian representation. But was Sadat moving too far and too fast? Last week there were grave fears that his proposed summit would not only accomplish little, it might also further split the Arab world...
...aides calls "the present drift toward surrender." But any such agreement, as far as Assad is concerned, will have to rest on the premise that peace is the goal and war the last-ditch alternative. Depending on how the final summit declaration is worded, Assad may go along with Palestinian-proposed resolutions calling for economic sanctions against Cairo and other measures designed to isolate Sadat...
...Palestinian organization, the Syrian-backed Saiqa, has put out a contract on Sadat's life. If he were assassinated, either by a random fanatic or a committed rejectionist, Egypt might well be ruled by a military leftist more attuned to the radical Arab message. But for the moment, at least, Sadat is politically secure at home...
...took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some concrete token of friendship. "There is no doubt," the Premier observed, "that the greatest achievement is that we really said seriously to each other, 'No more...
...frustrations about Israel have fostered a brand of terrorism that has frightened the Riyadh rulers. The assassination of King Faisal in 1975 (although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring's costly fire in one of Saudi Arabia's largest oilfields have made Khalid and Fahd conscious of their country's vulnerability. On one point Riyadh is adamant: Sadat must not sign a separate peace agreement with Israel, though the Saudis...