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...with President Gerald Ford; both sides considered it a profitable exchange of ideas about the next steps toward peace. In a tacit response to Egypt's peaceful intentions in reopening the canal, Israel announced a unilateral thinning-out of its forces in the Sinai. This week Premier Yitzhak Rabin will fly to Washington for his summit meeting with Ford. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had been considerably downcast at the failure of his diplomatic shuttle efforts in March, was cheered by the week's events. On the flight from Rome back to Washington...
...thinning-out was the result of Rabin's request to the Cabinet and his military advisers for ideas on how Israel should respond to the canal's reopening. One proposal was the Israeli forces might pull back four miles, ceding the abandoned territory to the U.N. buffer force. An objection to that idea was that the cost of new defenses further back would be at least $50 million, above and beyond the $250 million that Israel has spent on its present positions. In the end, however, Rabin rejected it mainly because such a move would radically alter...
...Israeli military withdrawal will unquestionably affect the welcome that Rabin gets in Washington. The Administration insists that it is still carrying on the reassessment of Middle East policy ordered by Ford after the Kissinger shuttle. Rabin will not be bringing any new Israeli proposals for negotiations; he is primarily interested in Ford's impressions of his Salzburg summit with Sadat...
...attempt at negotiations. They were disturbed, however, by his insistence in Salzburg and again at the canal ceremonies that Sinai negotiations be linked to talks with Syria about the Golan Heights. Jerusalem has steadfastly resisted such a linkage on the ground that it would complicate a difficult negotiating process. Rabin in Washington, moreover, is likely to face new pressures for Israel to surrender the Abu Rudeis oilfields and the Sinai passes in return for an extended second-stage agreement. This was a central issue on which the earlier Kissinger talks broke down. Sadat went to Salzburg with much the same...
Kissinger's pre-eminent role must come to an end. His approach is too limited, his plans too global, for either side to rely on him entirely. His attempt to arouse anti-Israel sentiment in this country, and pressure the Rabin government into accepting his scheme for a troop withdrawal should be recognized as a cruel and reckless response of a man who fears that his role as the power to be reckoned with is in danger...