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...Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at his candor. Kissinger's remarks were directly aimed at Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Israel's most adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington has changed since Rabin returned home. The U.S. is still committed to Israel, but the American mood (see box, next page) is for reduced military...
...hawk point of view that the country gave up too much for what it received during previous negotiations. On the Golan Heights, for instance, many Israelis feel that they should have held onto the provincial capital of Quneitra instead of returning it to the Syrians. Officially, Premier Rabin was authorized by his Cabinet to conclude only what Jerusalem called a thirty-fifty deal-a military pullback in the Sinai (see box) of 30 kilometers in the south broadening to 50 kilometers in the north. This withdrawal would include neither the Abu Rudeis oilfields nor the vital Giddi and Mitla passes...
...diplomatic problem, as Kissinger has pointed out to the Israelis, is that Sadat cannot make a nonbelligerency commitment without running the danger of alienating his Arab allies. In rebuttal last week, Israelis argued that Rabin, a political novice who heads a fragile coalition government, is just as vulnerable to pressures as Sadat. Moreover, Kissinger can no longer work out a deal privately with one Israeli leader, as he could with former Premier Golda Meir. Now he must satisfy a triumvirate consisting of Rabin, Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres...
...Kissinger before his arrival there clearly indicated that Israeli officials read one signal correctly-namely that Washington no longer automatically considers U.S. and Israeli interests in the Middle East to be more or less identical. But Jerusalem seems not to have digested this fact; the insouciance with which the Rabin government, at a time when the U.S. is in its worst recession since World War II, sought another $2.5 billion in military and economic aid on credit demonstrates that. Even within Israeli government circles there is a lingering feeling that the U.S. to some extent is still a hostage...