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...Sadat said Israel should vacate the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes deep in the Sinai. He wanted to retain a "minimum'' of 1½ divisions on the east bank of the Canal. He rejected the stringent restrictions on weapons that Israel had proposed. In Israel, when I presented this plan and argued that I could not go back to Sadat with the Dayan plan but needed a fallback position, the Cabinet showed considerable ingenuity. It simply turned the Dayan plan into the fallback position, giving me an even tougher new position with which to open the bidding. Yet there was, despite...
...succeed) or the "Sisco plan" (that is, fail). But when I went through the Israeli disengagement scheme in great detail, the mood grew frosty. The plan, said General Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Egypt's Chief of Staff, was designed to improve Israel's security and weaken Egypt's. Sadat listened sphinxlike. Then he asked me to leave the others and go with him into the study...
...Sadat sat pensively. "Do they mean it?" he asked. I said that I thought the Israeli forward line had to include the strategic passes. Some other terms could no doubt be improved, but it would take a prolonged negotiation. And the differences between what might ultimately be attained and what might...
Dayan came to the rescue. He produced jeeps and personnel carriers to bring the Israeli negotiating team to my hotel, where we met at 9:30 a.m. By noon we had in effect agreed that I would ask Sadat by telegram to accept the 30-km limit for surface-to-air missiles (which I knew he would do). The Israeli negotiating team meanwhile would put before the Cabinet for final approval the Egyptian requirement that 30 tanks and six batteries of howitzers remain on the east bank of the Canal. At noon we were finished. "It is a good agreement...
...left for the Prime Minister's residence in an Israeli army vehicle, slithering through the 12-in. snowfall. Despite her illness (she was suffering from shingles, a nerve disorder) she would personally chair the Cabinet meeting called to approve the agreement. I read her Sadat's personal message. "It is a good thing," she said laconically. "Why is he doing this?" After a generation of conflict it was not easy to believe in the sincerity of the adversary?especially one who had initiated the process in which we were engaged with a surprise attack...