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...peace is signed? How many refugees and what kind can come back? I need to know whether you need to monitor the border, what military outposts are necessary to guard your security. What else do you want? If I know the facts, then I can take them to Sadat and try to satisfy both you and him. I believe I can get from Sadat what you really need, but I just do not have your confidence...
...repeated my point. "You are as evasive with me as with the Arabs. The time has come to throw away reticence. I believe I can get Sadat to agree to your home-rule proposal if you convince him and me that you are not planning to keep large parts of the West Bank under your permanent control...
...accused Begin of wanting to hold on to the West Bank and said that his autonomy proposal was a subterfuge. He resented this word very much and subsequently brought it up many times. I stressed again Sadat's courage and personal sacrifice in making the peace initiative. A demilitarized Sinai and Egypt's signed agreement with Israel would protect Israel's security in the world community, and even within the Arab world, after we were gone. I emphasized that in Begin the Israelis had a Prime Minister with a demonstrated willingness to give his life for Israel's security...
Unmoved, Begin turned again to the Sadat paper, saying that it would force the Jews to become a minority in their own country, that it smacked of the Versailles treaty and that Sadat wanted peace with an Israel that would be not only vulnerable but doomed. He would demand that Sadat withdraw the proposal. I said, "Sadat will never withdraw his proposal. Any of us should have the right to put forward anything we desire. This paper may also represent a Saudi perspective, which Sadat has to accommodate. You can be equally effective in rejecting the paper by saying...
Begin and I walked from Holly to Aspen, arriving at my cottage just in time to greet Sadat. I led the way to the study and sat behind the desk. They took the other two chairs, facing each other across the desk. I decided to withdraw from the discussion so Begin and Sadat could address each other directly. While they talked, I took notes, and they soon refrained from talking to me or attempting to seek my opinion...