Word: weizman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel there were some upbeat signs. As Dayan prepared to set off for the Camp David talks, Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer that he thought the Camp David negotiations would reach "a positive conclusion." Weizman added simply: "I believe that our future and Egypt's future lie together." He did not, however, discuss the vexing problem of "linkage"−Egypt's insistence that a bilateral peace agreement with Israel must be tied in some way to a plan for giving autonomy to the West Bank and Gaza...
...Cairo talks for a flight to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir. Sensitive to the impropriety of conducting diplomacy at such a moment, Vance huddled only briefly over coffee in a private room at the airport with Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
...declared that the matter of peace "is now in the hands of the Israeli government." While Carter praised Sadat for being "very generous" in making concessions requested by the U.S., the President suggested that Israel was refusing to accept a timetable that actually had been proposed by Dayan and Weizman...
...Israelis, however, it is Sadat who, as one Begin aide says, has been "zigzagging all the time, all the way." They claim that earlier this year a high Egyptian official assured Defense Minister Weizman that Egypt was "against the establishment of an independent Palestinian state." But last month Sadat said in a letter to Begin: "The Palestinian issue was always the core of the Middle East conflict. I always demanded, and still do demand, the establishment of a Palestinian state." The Israelis argue, moreover, that Begin has made important concessions, like agreeing to remove Israeli settlements and airfields from...
Nonetheless, the vote was a genuine victory for Premier Begin and his Washington negotiators, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. It was Dayan who had phoned Begin, saying "Let's for once be ahead of the Egyptians. Let us be the first to say yes, and leave Sadat to fight his own way." Begin agreed, and the Cabinet fell into line by a vote...