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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., I met for two hours with Begin, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski were with me. We sat around a table in a small cottage named Holly. Everyone had read the Egyptian document. Begin was now excited and irate about the tone and substance of the document. "This smacks of a victorious state dictating peace to the defeated!" he said. "This document is not a proper basis for negotiations...
...Weizman replied, "We wouldn't be here if we didn't have confidence...
...controversial issue, I never consulted Sadat's aides but always went directly to their leader. It soon became obvious, however, that Dayan, Weizman or Attorney General Aharon Barak could be convinced on an issue more quickly than the Prime Minister, and they were certainly more effective in changing Begin's mind than I ever was. More important was the bottom
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. Late in the afternoon, we met with the Israelis. Vice President Walter Mondale, Vance, Brzezinski, Dayan, Weizman and Barak joined Begin and me. I knew this would be a crucial session...
...mean everything, to get the Prime Minister's post," says an Israeli general. Begin had misgivings about awarding the powerful Defense portfolio to Sharon, who had a reputation for disobeying superiors on the battlefield. Begin, who held the Defense post himself for more than a year after Ezer Weizman resigned in May 1980, once remarked to Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich: "Sharon might surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." Not even Sharon's military colleagues trust his commitment to free government. Says former Cabinet Secretary Arye Naor: "If ever, God forbid, he reaches the supreme...