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...were prepared to withdraw toward their 1967 borders on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai. That was nothing new. But what of the all-important West Bank of the Jordan River, on which the Arabs (and Washington) want a home for the Palestinians? Israel's hard-lining Premier Menachem Begin not only continued to insist that Israel must keep the West Bank but went even further than that: he announced a tough additional condition against "foreign rule" there. By that he meant that Jerusalem would not even go along with creation of a West Bank Palestinian enclave under...
...Carter Administration's warming toward the Palestinians startled the Israelis. In a sense, that was repayment -intentional or not-for Begin's surprise move after his talks with Carter last month, when the Israeli Premier legalized three more Israeli settlements on the West Bank almost as soon as he got back to Jerusalem...
Just before Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem last week, Israel's Premier Menachem Begin caused a stir with a public admission: Israeli artillery regularly fires into south Lebanon to shoo away Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese Christian enclaves in the border area. In fact, during a recent seven-day period, Israeli batteries-sometimes directed by observers in spotter planes-fired 16 times at Palestinian forces near the seven Christian villages in the border area; during the same week, the Israelis manned two observation posts in Lebanese territory and sent in seven patrols-one of which got into a firefight with...
...meantime, reports TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, the secret Israeli operation began in May 1976 when three Israeli missile boats sailed from Haifa to Jounieh Bay, near the Christian "capital" north of Beirut. Aboard one boat was Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, and his Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. Soon the Israelis were joined by two boats from the mainland, one carrying Camille Chamoun, then a Lebanese Cabinet minister, the other carrying Lebanese Christian Phalangist Party Leader Pierre Gemayel-both boats guided and guarded by Israeli frogmen. Though the two Lebanese Christians, leaders of competing factions, refused to meet with...
Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis has steadfastly kept his distance from Cyprus since an attempted putsch against Makarios by the military junta that preceded him, but in Athens last week the government sympathetically declared six days of mourning. In Turkey, the new government of Premier Suleyman Demirel tactfully decided neither to gloat nor to salute his adversary. Most Turks, however, agreed with an Ankara grocer who declared that "God has finally heard our prayers...