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This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service coverage of the Middle East peace talks from December 1977. It collects British, Israeli and Soviet press and radio items on President as-Sadat's initiative and the planned Cairo conference. It also covers Prime Minister Begin's visit to London, Secretary of State Vance's regional tour and the Knesset debate on the peace plan. It contains no material on unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Cairo”42 pages
PPROVEQ FOR'R E CIA HI TOR L COLLECT NS D ISION AR 70-14 13NO 1 V. 29 Dec 77 ISEA [Dayan) As for ourselves, we have decided on two mat s One, concerning our security, is that .the IDF will be the only ar:-y on the west side of .the Jordan. There will be no army there but the IDF, and it will be positioned wherever it is deemed necessary for security reasons in Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. It will not be there to tell the Arabs how to live but to enable the Jews to live, not in order to meddle in Arab affairs but to defend the lives of Jews. We have given ourselves the right to purchase land and settle on it, and we have given ourselves tae right for Jews to move and be present in any place in the Great Strip, in Judaea and Samaria without a visa. Gentlemen, we do not want others to guard us and protect our lives. But we do ot wa t to live like strangers in our own homeland. 1 if / " T t of Begn Speech 3/ TA282148Y Jerusalem Domestic Television Service in HebreW 1835 GMT 28 Dec 77 TA [Speech by Prime Minister Menaham Begin at Knesset s sion--live [Text] Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen, Knesset meibers: We all, from uron experience and also from the experience of other people, know the daily routine of a democratic parliament. It usually deals with trivial matters, law, regulations, discussion. The French say about this that the share of a parliament member is boredom. However, - - there comes a day in the life of a democratic parliament .in which all its greatness, all its importance are expressed. Today is one of these days, we are concluding about 11 hours of continuous argument. The debate was on a -high level. There was pain, there were singing, elation, debate, interjections, just as there should be in an elected parliament. Today we have discussed the greatest matters concerning the Israeli people and state. This period may be one of the greatest compared with past periods. We are happy that we have reached it. The parliament has been in session for a full day and has discussed the future of the nation. The speeches were of free people. Each expressed his cpinicn entirely freely and each will sum .up his opinion voting as a free man, without the imposition of faction discipline. Each will vote * according to his consciousness and conscience. Ihave an argument these days with mybest friends, and Iwill not be deterred by. it. Therefore, I will begin with a renark made yesterday in the 'Ofra Convention'. It was said there that my motive for bringing the peace plan was to win the Nobel - Prize. A young man said this. We might not have been born if others who are sitting here had not risen to do sonething for the people of Israel in Eretz Yisra'el. I am not complaining. I only intend to drew attention to verbal lawlessness. A Nobel Prize means personal benefit. Money is unimportant here, it is the prize which is important. Well, now that I have aged I got the point when a young man from Gush Emunim said that I had toiled, worked and brought forth a peace plan out of the desire for benefit. There does this verbal lawlessness stem from? Not to - mention other things that were said. I told the Gush Emunim in an argument once that I love them today and will continue to like them tomorrow too. I tcld them you are wonderful pioneers, the builders of the country, settlers on a stony ground, in wind and in winter, in hardship. However, you have on weakness. You have developed some sort of savior complex in yourselves 6 and you must remenber...(interrupted by. an interjection that the Gush Emunim members had a savior, meaning Begin). This is whac I told them, then, before this debate. I want the public co hear this since we spoke sincerely--you must remember that there ere days when you were not born yet or were small children, when other people endangered themselves day and night, toiled and made sacrifices, and did their work without a bit of such a messiah complex. -
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