Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would respond to Sadat's initiative depended, in large measure, on the outcome of a subtle contest between Foreign Minister Dayan and Premier Begin. It was not by any means an open fight, but there were significant differences between the men about the meaning of Sadat's trip. Begin apparently believed that the visit did not call for any immediate Israeli countermove. By contrast, Dayan feels that Israel needs to reappraise its position toward the Arab states-and to do so quite soon...
Responding to sharp Palestinian criticism of his trip, Sadat on his return home shut down the Egyptian Voice of Palestine, a P.L.O. radio station, and expelled 20 Palestinians who had tried to organize demonstrations against his mission. He also arranged for Egypt's majority political group, the Arab Socialist Party, to invite leaders of Palestinian Arabs who live on the West Bank to Cairo for consultations about the resumption of Geneva talks. The invitation pointedly called on the Palestinian people "to differentiate between those who seek peace and those who want to destroy everything...
Television affected the way the project was set up. Had Sadat proceeded through diplomatic channels, feeling out the Israeli response to a visit, the trip might have been delayed; also, by advancing secretly, step by step, either party could have backed down at any time. When Cronkite and other TV reporters got involved, it was irrevocable; the world was a participant. Thus TV hurried the affair along, without actually causing it to happen...
...demanding more and more, of propelling events with its own requirements for momentum. It can also, quite simply, falsify reality. Indeed it has frequently done so; film editors go for the fast and turbulent scene, even if everything is calm two feet out of camera range. Perhaps the Sadat trip was such effective the ater, because it was an event of enough inherent size and poignance to live up to TV's dramatic requirements without needing to be hoked...
Suddenly, in the wake of Anwar Sadat's stunning trip to Israel, a Middle East peace settlement is conceivable. New initiatives and attitudes have broken through encrusted layers of inflexible positions, rhetoric and wars. The first steps toward a settlement will presumably be taken at a reconvened Geneva Conference, one that would be conducted in a new spirit of optimism. Even as diplomats who may take part in Geneva begin to worry about the initial, prickly procedural obstacles, others are -once again-starting to formulate what a fair, just and lasting Middle East peace would involve...