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Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff pressed Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin for his interpretation of the stalled Middle East negotiations, while Correspondents Wilton Wynn in Cairo and Karsten Prager in Beirut reported Arab views and reaction to Faisal's death. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME...
Washington's pique, as President Ford's reaction indicated, was directed mostly at Israel. Kissinger himself was particularly disappointed that the divided and insecure government of Premier Yitzhak Rabin was not bold enough to make more concessions to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who had risked his political reputation in the Arab world by undertaking the bilateral talks. The breakdown of negotiations meant that Jerusalem had lost not only the chance for accommodation in the Sinai but, more important, the opportunity of keeping the whole peacemaking process moving toward the kind of Middle East settlement that Israel has hoped...
...result of the talks' collapse, Rabin became something of an instant hero, largely because, as a political columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aharanot explained it, "he has proved he is not America's man." The Knesset overwhelmingly approved a resolution upholding the Premier's actions; even the conservative, antigovernment Likud bloc joined in. A post-deadlock poll by Israel's Institute of Applied Social Research showed that 91% of Israelis supported their Premier (although 58% also expressed hope that the government would work toward a negotiated settlement...
...after all, the Jewish state's principal military supplier and almost only trustworthy ally. In an effort to keep negotiations going and put the Israelis on notice about the consequences they faced if the talks broke down, Ford dashed off a message to Rabin. "I am disappointed to learn," he cabled, "that Israel has not moved as far as it might." The President warned that the U.S. intended to reassess its position in the Middle East, "including our policy towards Israel" - a bald reference to Israel's expected $2.5 billion request for military aid in fiscal...
...along. The truth is that Sadat is probably the most moderate Arab they are likely to negotiate with for a long time. As Political Analyst Milton Viorst last week noted in the Washington Post, "What Sadat offered Israel was, in a word, his body. Through Kissinger, he was telling Rabin, as he tried to tell Mrs. Meir in late 1973, that he would act as Israel's broker in the Arab world if he could get some visible help from the Israelis. Whatever Israelis may say about him, Sadat clearly considers it more important to get on with Egypt...