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Qaboos (pronounced Caboose) has been the only leader in the region to support openly the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's separate peace with Israel and to endorse the Camp David agreements. Like Ronald Reagan, Qaboos feels that the most realistic possibility for a Middle East settlement is some form of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation once Israel has returned most of the West Bank to Jordan...
Unlike Begin, Sadat wanted a firm framework for a permanent peace and was eager to deal with all the specific issues while we were together. He agreed with my suggestion that, once a "framework for peace" was signed, aides could draft a peace treaty over a period of three months...
...Sadat next handed me the opening proposal of the Egyptians. As I read it my heart sank; it was extremely harsh and filled with all the unacceptable Arab rhetoric. It blamed Israel for all previous wars and demanded that Israelis offer indemnities for use of the occupied land, pay for all the oil they had pumped out of Egyptian wells, permit refugees free entry to the West Bank, withdraw their forces to the original pre-1967 boundaries, allow the Palestinians to form their own nation and relinquish control over East Jerusalem. When I had finished reading, Sadat said he would...
...Sadat had studied the points I had been making the past few months, he said, and found them reasonable. He recalled the first time we had met, and his conviction then that some of my dreams would never be realized in his lifetime. Now he was prepared to make those dreams come true, because the people of the two countries and most of the world wanted peace...
Typically, Sadat drew the conversation to a close with a strategic analysis of the situation in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and South and North Yemen. He seemed especially worried about the vulnerability of Saudi Arabia, adding that if a real threat ever developed there, he would be willing to help. He had told Crown Prince Fahd, "Your borders are my borders." In spite of the Saudis' public criticism of his peace initiative, he was still