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Begin lashed back at Sadat's suspension of the talks as "incomprehensible" and insisted that Israel would have to agree on when and where negotiations should resume. The cause of the latest flap was an apparent misunderstanding by Sadat of some doings in the Israeli Knesset...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has always displayed a knack for mercurial decisions. He spun full circle last week, confounding friends and enemies alike. With the May 26 target date for an agreement on Palestinian autonomy just around the corner, Sadat abruptly suspended the talks. His reason: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had said that security in the West Bank and Gaza "must remain exclusively in Israel's hands, and nobody else can interfere." But after a telephone talk with his friend Jimmy Carter, Sadat told the People's Assembly in Cairo on Wednesday that negotiations with Israel would resume...
...Egyptian leader declared that the Knesset had, almost covertly, passed a bill affirming that Jerusalem will forever remain undivided as Israel's capital. Sadat interpreted the measure as an Israeli ploy to keep the subject of Jerusalem's future out of the talks, even though the predominantly Arab eastern sector of the city was occupied by the Israelis, along with the West Bank and Gaza, during the 1967 Six-Day War. Declared Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali: "The fact that Israel passes such a law shows that the will to find...
After yet another round of negotiations on Palestinian autonomy in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzlia, U.S. Special Middle East Ambassador Sol Linowitz flew to Cairo late last week to commiserate with Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President greeted his "good friend Sol" in an uncharacteristically morose mood. Later that evening came the reason, and the shocker: Sadat requested an indefinite postponement of the talks, which were supposed to produce an autonomy agreement...
After exhibiting patient optimism over the past three months, when the talks have seemed hopelessly stalled, why had Sadat now decided to stop them? One theory was that he did so as a way of putting pressure on the Israelis to make a gesture of good faith that would get the negotiations moving again. In Cairo, there was speculation that Sadat might have some kind of dramatic initiative in mind. Sadat has repeatedly declared that "a new situation will arise" unless meaningful progress is achieved by the target date. Some Egyptian officials believe the only way to salvage the negotiations...