Word: sadat
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...asked Sadat to let me meet that evening with the Egyptian delegation. I opened the discussion. "I know you are all very discouraged right now. The issue we addressed today was the Israeli settlements in the Sinai, which may be the most difficult one of all. Our position is that they are illegal and should be removed. On this, your views and ours are the same...
...Sadat replied. "That man Begin is not saying anything today that he might not have said prior to my Jerusalem initiative. I am willing to have open borders, work on other issues and bring in other Arabs. The man is obsessed. Begin haggles over every word, and is making his withdrawal conditional on keeping land. Begin is not ready for peace...
...Sadat said, "I am willing to give them two years to phase out the settlements." I replied, "You must be more flexible on the exact time?two or three
...years." Sadat: "Okay...
...trial period for the West Bank can work, if we agree on it. If we don't, then Moscow and the radicals will rejoice. You must understand our special commitment to Israel, and the fact that the Israelis do want peace. They have not yet responded adequately to the Sadat peace initiative, but they have offered to leave the Sinai and to give autonomy or self-government to the West Bank Arabs, and our hope is that they will stop building settlements in the West Bank and remove them from the Sinai. We simply must find a formula that both...