Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dayan insisted last week that he had made no such promise about the settlements, but a U.S. official snapped: "Our notes [from the September meeting] differ." Another Administration official was more blunt. "They're lying," he said. "There's no other way to call it." Sadat was expected to ask Carter to put pressure on Israel to dismantle the settlements. As one U.S. official in Jerusalem put it, "We don't like it, but what can we do? We can't stop a sovereign government from doing what it wants." Nonetheless, American diplomats are troubled by a feeling that Jerusalem...
...developed with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, the two sides made some limited progress last week at the second round of the military talks in Cairo. At the outset, nobody was particularly optimistic, but in three days of talks the delegates narrowed the gap toward a Sinai settlement. The Egyptians reportedly suggested that the Israelis could keep their settlements in the Rafah salient of the northern Sinai for a limited time (the exact period to be decided later), as part of a U.N. buffer zone, and retain their settlements along the Gulf of Aqaba?but only under Egyptian...
...keep the Soviet Union out of the peace process. But when it came time to define what measures should be taken against Sadat, none was forthcoming. Concluded TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis: "Sadat so far has outsmarted the Arabs who oppose him because he continues to insist on a comprehensive settlement. They are clearly afraid that, despite the countless obstacles, Sadat will somehow pull off a settlement." Having gambled that he will fail, the anti-Sadat Arabs have not yet decided what they will do if, by chance, he should succeed...
...miles north of Jerusalem in the brown-green Samarian hills, to erect a tabernacle in his honor. Today, eight devout Orthodox Jewish families, huddled in mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most...
Arabs from the nearby town of Turmus 'Aiya are understandably furious. When the settlers arrived a month ago, they blocked the road with stones. Israeli troops forced them to remove the roadblocks, but the anger remains. Arab children shake their fists at cars heading toward the settlement, as TIME'S Robert Slater discovered during a visit to Shiloh last week. The settlers have no telephones and must use one in an Arab cafe a mile away; when they do, they go armed...