Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressures on the Egyptian President have seriously increased, even as the chances have diminished that he will be able to fulfill his role as catalyst for a comprehensive settlement embracing all the Arab nations that remain in a state of war with Israel. Some observers are convinced, however, that the P.L.O. raid and the Israeli reprisal are part of an inevitable chain of events that is pulling Sadat toward making a separate peace with Israel...
...Egyptian official will admit that a separate peace is a possibility. Even the most moderate, like Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali or pro-American Editor Mustafa Amin, maintain that a peace without the other Arabs is impossible. Sadat himself insists that he must have a comprehensive settlement, not an Israeli-Egyptian accord. But the gap between Sadat and the P.L.O. has widened almost to the point that it can never be bridged again, and the Egyptian President ultimately may have to make a choice between the P.L.O. and peace. Given his almost mystical commitment to the peace...
...separate peace is still a long way off, but such an accord would have to be camouflaged so that it would appear to be part of a comprehensive settlement. Until now, the Egyptians have retained the hope that the peace process can be salvaged, that Israel and Egypt may yet agree to a declaration of principles and invite some other Arabs?such as Jordan's King Hussein and some of the moderate Palestinians?to join the talks. But the raid along the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway indicates that in the last analysis the P.L.O. will throw its weight...
...P.L.O. is not much closer now to any sort of productive settlement. According to Beirut sources, the P.L.O. leadership last week decided to return to underground warfare against Israel. The Palestinians even announced that they were resurrecting Black September, the dread group named after the month in 1970 when King Hussein brutally kicked Palestinian commandos out of Jordan. In the past, Black September has carried out assassinations of other Arabs as well as American diplomats. If the group seriously returns, it would mark a black day. for both the world and the Palestinians...
Pressure on Israel to make concessions to advance the prospects of a settlement has profoundly unsettled American Jews. They are not monolithic, of course, but generally they have become anxious, mistrustful and even angry with Carter and his Administration. Moderates charge the President with a lack of true understanding of Israel's precarious security situation-a point driven forcefully home by the P.L.O.'s terrorist raid into Tel Aviv two weeks ago. More extreme critics claim he is purposely pursuing a peace-at-any-price policy that will lead to Israel's certain destruction...