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...days earlier. It was our plan to begin implementing the Soviet proposal by asking Britain to introduce in the Security Council late Saturday afternoon, Oct. 13, a resolution calling for a cease-fire in place. That morning Sir Alec Douglas Home, the British Foreign Secretary, telephoned to say that Sadat would not accept anything less than an Israeli commitment to return to the 1967 frontiers. Our proposal would not fly unless Moscow was willing to pressure Sadat by cutting off his supplies; he doubted the Soviets were prepared to go this far. Home asked whether détente remained our motivating...
Late on Oct. 15, Hafez Ismail sent a message in which?amazingly?he invited me to visit Egypt for talks "within the framework of two principles?that Egypt cannot make any concessions of land or sovereignty." There could be no doubt that Ismail was speaking in Sadat's name. Sadat could have used the airlift as a pretext to unleash the mobs in the Arab world against us, as Nasser had done with far less provocation in 1967. But Sadat was willing to forgo posturing for attainable progress. He had taken the measure of Soviet support: always enough to keep...
Having dealt with the threat of a confrontation with the Soviets, the U.S. had yet to deal with the problem that gave rise to the threat. The encircled Egyptian Third Army still faced starvation or surrender; either outcome would have humiliated or even destroyed Sadat and foreclosed hopes of peace. The Israelis, spoiling for revenge, showed no inclination to spare the army. Convinced that Israel had created the crisis by launching an attack well after the cease-fire so as to destroy the Third Army, Kissinger told Dinitz: "You will not be permitted to destroy this army. You are destroying...
...confident that we were within negotiating range. Dayan and I decided that I should present the Israeli proposal to Sadat personally...
...Sadat, wearing his military uniform, greeted me with a booming "Welcome" and drew me into the study of his villa, an unprepossessing stone government rest house. He went straight to the heart of the problem. The laborious diplomacy since the October War had to be brought to some conclusion. Sadat therefore asked that I stay in the Middle East until the negotiations had either succeeded or failed. A disengagement agreement, in his view, was essential to turn a new page in Arab-American relations and give momentum to the peace process with Israel. To demonstrate his sincerity, Sadat gave himself...