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...calls "bilateral separate deals," meaning resumption of Egyptian-Israeli talks under U.S. aegis, continue in tandem with Geneva discussions. So far Washington seems uncertain about what will emerge from President Ford's double summit-with Sadat in Salzburg and ten days later in Washington with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin...
...Knesset's committee on foreign affairs and security. Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and Minister of Justice Haim Zadok flew in at week's end, while Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, and Supreme Court Justice Haim Conn were packing their bags. Small wonder if Premier Yitzhak Rabin felt lonely in Jerusalem: some days it seemed that there were more Israeli VIPS in the U.S. than in Israel...
...test-and more intense lobbying-will doubtless come soon. President Ford will meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Rabin next month, and only then will the results of the Administration's Middle East reassessment become clear. Ford will also tell Congress what he wants to give Jerusalem in the way of military and economic aid in the next fiscal year. If the money and the diplomatic support are not as much as Israel's friends think it needs-and if the special American-Israeli relationship seems to be weakening-the Ford Administration will probably...
Speaking of U.S. leverage with Israel, Rabin stated, "Israel is a sovereign state, responsible for itself." I hope Rabin remembers this before he drops another "$2.5 billion request...
...Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter-the world's most advanced combat aircraft -so as to pressure Israel to make peace and to limit Jerusalem's pre-emptive strike possibilities. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government argues that such pressure will only encourage Arabs like Assad. Thus there was particular interest last week in the first public showing of the Kfir (Lion Cub), a home-built fighter that symbolizes Israel's determination to protect itself...