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...Sadat announced that despite Kissinger's failure, Egypt would reopen the Suez Canal to foreign shipping on June 5, the eighth anniversary of its closing during the 1967 war. Sadat's declaration drew a cool response from the Israelis. "It means nothing to Israel," snapped Premier Yitzhak Rabin, since the Egyptian leader declared that Israeli cargoes could not be transported, even in ships of neutral nations, through the reopened waterway...
...disengagement talks more than a year ago. "Sadat is selling the same merchandise twice," declared a government spokesman in Jerusalem. As for their potential troubles with the U.S., Israeli officials seem to be pinning their hopes on the U.S. Congress. "It is our view," declared an aide to Premier Rabin, "that Congress will not let the President get away with punitive action against Israel." The Israelis claim that radical Arabs would interpret any reduction in U.S. aid as a sign of American weakness and a justification of their intransigent attitude toward the Jewish state. Jerusalem further insists that a strong...
...talks. What that means is that Kissinger is angry at Israel for being unwilling to accept his idea for a non-belligerency substitute--a clause which would read similarly to non-belligerency but have less binding an effect--and that he is trying to give Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his government a good scare. Apparently Kissinger and his sides have told newsmen that the Israelis were aware that non-belligerency would not emerge from this round of negotiations, and said they were prepared to go ahead with the talks anyway, on the premise that a settlement...
...avoid being made the scapegoat and to protect its chances of getting U.S. aid, the Israeli government, early in the week, launched a campaign to dodge any blame for the failure of the talks. Rabin eagerly explained Israel's position (see interview page...
...What else could we do? Give everything for practically nothing?" With those rhetorical questions, Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin defended his country's stance during the Kissinger negotiations and placed the blame for the breakdown on Egypt during an hour-long interview last week with TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff. Other points made by the Premier...