Word: weizman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli army radio station said that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman would report today to an emergency meeting of the defense and foreign affairs committees of the Israeli parliament...
...hour session with Israelis. Mood is more conciliatory because Begin is now responding to suggestions from Carter rather than from Sadat. But Begin still criticizes many points in great detail, then grows visibly tired after midnight. Carter patiently defends U.S. compromises, keeps the meeting moving. "Carter was incredible," Weizman says. "He never lost control of the meeting for a minute." Outside, says one official, the long Israeli-American meeting makes the Egyptians "nervous as hell." A few of them try to watch a movie in Hickory Lodge, but fidget and leave. They fear some kind of American-Israeli common front...
TUESDAY. Carter seeks breakthrough on Sinai problem, pores over maps with Weizman. President sees possibility of working out two agreements, one on Israeli-Egyptian peace, one on framework for overall peace. Carter retreats to private study, scrawls details of separate Sinai agreement on yellow pad, putting in dates for Israeli withdrawals, size of security positions, hard numbers. He puts proposals in his pocket, then meets with Sadat. They go over Egyptian response to U.S. overall peace principles. Carter pulls Sinai proposals from pocket. Sadat surprisingly receptive, merely modifies some security zone dimensions, other figures...
That night Carter and Vance discover Begin is adamant against U.S. Sinai proposals, as amended by Sadat. He starts talking in Hebrew with Weizman. Carter and Vance look at each other in dismay. Carter notes that it is nearly midnight, everyone is exhausted and all should sleep on it. Begin agrees...
...Carter wakes up, too, decides to go right to work. He telephones Brzezinski and asks security adviser to bring over some papers. The pace is tiring everybody. During nightly movies, Begin keeps falling asleep, once while watching An Unmarried Woman. At a showing of Patton, Weizman makes a graphic point: "If this thing falls apart, this is what we're going to have?another war." On this day conference almost does fall apart. Carter shuttles between Israelis and Sadat, who is emotional, one minute hopeful, the next gloomy. Despite Carter's reassurances that U.S. is not pushing too many Israeli...