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Fully aware of this growing enmity, the Carter Administration was busy giving last-minute assurances of support to the Israelis and the Egyptians. Both Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Egyptian Defense Minister Kamel Hassan Ali arrived in Washington with impressive shopping lists. As a reward for signing the treaty, Israel is to receive $3 billion in new aid, including $2.2 billion in credits over three years and $800 million in grants to finance the removal of Israeli airfields in the Sinai desert. All this is in addition to the $1.8 billion in annual military and economic aid that Israel...
...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...