FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV201
V, 28 Dec 77 N 6 ISRAEL
The administrative council will name one of its members to represent it :fore theGovernment of Israel for the purpose of discussing common issues, and one of its memberswill represent it before the Government of Jordan for the discussion of common issues.
Israel insists on its right and demand for its sovereignty over Judaea, Samaria and the
Gaza Strip. Knowing that other demands exist, it proposes, for the sake of the agreementand of peace, to leave the question of sovereignty in those areas open.
Regarding the administration of the places holy to the three religions in Jerusalem, a
special proposal will be prepared and presented, insuring free admission for all
believers to the places sacred to them.
These principles will lend themselves to reexamination after a period of 5 years.
Mr Chairman, I have to explain now the 11th clause of this plan, as well as the 24thclause. [indistinct interjection from the floor]
Esteemed Knesset members, in the 11th clause of our plan we postulated: the security
" and the public order in the areas of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza will be entrusted to the
hands of the Israeli authorities. Without this clause there is no meaning to the plan
of administrative. autonomy. I wish to announce from the Knesset rostrum that it is self-evident that this includes deployment of IDF forces in Judaea, Samaria and in the GazaStrip. We do not even dream of...[indistinct interjection from the floor]
[Knesset speaker] Knesset Member Toubi, a political debate will be taking place, andyou [plural] will be able to express your opinion. I ask that you allow the primeminister to continue his speech without interruptions.
[Begin] We do not even dream of the possibility--if we are given the chance to withdrawour military forces from Judaea, Samaria and Gaza--of abandoning those areas to thecontrol of the murderous organization that is called the PLO, or ASHAF in Hebrew, thatis, translated into Hebrew. [meaning there is really no such word in Hebrew] This ishistory's meanest murder organization, 'except for the armed Nazi organizations. It alsobragged 2 days ago about the murder of Hamdi al-Qadi, deputy director of the Education -Bureau in Ramallah.
It is a frightening proposition that someoners solution to the problems in the MiddleEast might be a single bullet dispatched to the heart of Egyptian President as-Sadat
as the PLO s predecessors did at Al-Aqsa Mosque to King 'Abdallah. One single bullet
No wonder that the Egyptian Government has declared that should such a single shot be
fired, Egypt would retaliate with a million shots. We wish to say that under no
condition will that organization be allowed to take control over Judaea, Samaria and
Gaza. If we withdrew our army, this is exactly what would happen. Hence let it be
known that whoever desires an agreement with us should please accept our announcement
that the IDF will be deployed in Judaea, Samaria and Gaza. And there will also be other
security arrangements, so that we can give to all the residents, Jews and Arabs alike,
in Eretz Yisra'el a secure life--that is to say, security for all.
We postulated in the 24th clause: Israel insists.on its right and demand for sovereignty
over Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Knowing that other demands exist, it proposes,for the sake of the agreement and peace, to leave the question of sovereignty in
those areas open.