Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Anwar el-Sadat's historic trip to Israel was a symbolic gesture that may signal a break in the seemingly endless escalating cycles of hostility in the Middle East. Similarly, Sadat's request last week for a meeting in Cairo, as soon as possible, of all nations and Palestinian representatives involved in the complex Middle East situation to discuss the upcoming Geneva peace talks is heartening. Again, Sadat's move was a welcome one, although it still lies in the realm of the psychological gesture. To be sure, the Sadat initiatives raise more questions than they resolve...
...rhetoric that Begin espoused must give way to a more flexible and realistic bargaining position. As Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said last week, Israel must quickly re-examine its past positions and develop its ultimate attitude on important questions such as its borders, the existence and location of a Palestinian state, and the nature of the settlement itself...
...breakthrough, pointing to Egypt's unstable financial and social conditions, but the motives are less important right now than the possible results. Sadat's move is well-considered and prudent. For example, he has left the door open for a search for the best possible representation of the Palestinian refugees, a difficult objective that should be sought. The bitter criticism heaped on Egypt by other Arab nations including Syria and Libya is unjustified and counter-productive, and Sadat and Israel should continue to negotiate in preparation for Geneva no matter who else joins or criticizes. The other alternative...
...parties involved back to Geneva. Although Syria balked, Egypt readily endorsed, with minor reservations, the working paper that Carter and Vance negotiated with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan between U.N. meetings in New York last month. In essence, this formula called for a united Arab delegation containing some Palestinian representation, but no known members of the P.L.O. There would be specific negotiations between six subgroups?Israel and Egypt, for example, or Israel and Syria?on the basis of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for return of occupied
Sadat even went out of his way to propose a resolution of the Palestinian representation problem that might satisfy Israel as well as his Arab colleagues. In a letter to Carter last August, the contents of which he disclosed to visiting U.S. Congressmen in Egypt two weeks ago, he suggested that the Palestinians at Geneva might be represented by an academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod...