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Helped along by the amiable rapport that Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman has 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...
...announced that he would not be sending his delegates back to he Cairo talks. The Egyptian President also said that informal "serious negotiations" with Israel were still going on; Atherton was apparently a key conduit. Begin later declared that he expected his Cabinet to authorize Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to resume discussions in Cairo this week with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy...
Meanwhile, at the military committee, Weizman and Gamassy will again take up the problem of Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. While there is hope for the settlement of this issue, the committee may not be able to solve a problem that has profound emotional overtones for Begin as well as for Sadat: the Jewish settlements in Sinai. In his early talks with Begin, the Egyptian President thought he could ultimately persuade Israel to dismantle them as part of an overall peace settlement; thus he was shocked by Begin's subsequent vow that they would be maintained no matter what...
...most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt with a military arsenal as large and as sophisticated as the one it has provided Israel?not so Egypt could launch...
...Cairo talks opened in a mood of camaraderie, with both Weizman and Ga-massy expressing measured optimism about the outcome. "It's a long tunnel," Weizman remarked, "and for the moment we are only at the very beginning...