Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis, the 13 months since the October war have been a period of frustration and despair. "Things are piling up on us very suddenly," says one of Rabin's colleagues. "The other wars never ended in a final settlement, but they at least gave us time to breathe. The 1948 war ended in an armistice and gave us eight years. After 1956 we returned to the armistice and gained eleven years. After 1967 we got a ceasefire for seven years. This time we haven't gained a moment; pressure has been on us continuously...
...made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...demanding a return to Geneva now, Assad is at odds with his principal partner in the October war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Like the Israelis, Sadat is still committed to seeking a settlement through the Kissinger technique of phased negotiations. To all appearances, Egypt is not nearly as well prepared for a renewal of fighting as is Syria, since it has received relatively little new military equipment from the So^ viet Union since the end of the war/ Moreover, Sadat is allowing civilians to return to the cities along the Suez Canal that were turned into ghost towns...
Sadat accepts the Kissinger principle that progress toward a settlement can be made in bilateral negotiations but maintains that there can be no full-scale peace settlement between Egypt and Israel until Israel has also reached agreements with the other Arab combatants. "One party could act more quickly than others," explained an Egyptian official last week, "but it is necessary that there should be progress on all fronts." The sticking point is that "all fronts" includes the West Bank, and this would now require direct negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O...
...real problem behind the present crisis is the loss of momentum toward a negotiated settlement. In Washington's view, both Israel and Syria are partially responsible for the current rise in tension. The Israelis were too inflexible in their refusal to deal with Jordan over the West Bank in recent months, some U.S. officials believe, thereby weakening King Hussein and strengthening Arafat's position at the Rabat summit. But more important, in the U.S. view, Syrian President Assad, has been pursuing a "stalemate strategy" of seeking to prevent progress toward an Israeli settlement with Jordan and Egypt until...