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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
PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV201 V. 2 9 Dec 77 N 15 .SA-ISRAEL The second moment was when we were required, [word indistinct] and especially, alittle covertlybut still overtly, to announce that we would agree to the establishmentof a state called Palestine in Judaea, Samaria and Gaza. We again said that we willabsolutely not accept this. We said this directly: This will be a mortal danger forthe state of Israel. Under no circumstances should our right be disregarded. This isour country. From the security point of view--we have 19 years of experience--evenfrom the present borderline it is impossible to prevent invasions into Jerusalem,Petah Tiqwa, [name indistinctj, Ashqelon, Ashdod and other places if this area ofJudaa,amaia and the Gaza Strip is in the hnso hee tmyb.Ti sfothe experience of nearly two decades. It is truesthatwit wouldbea mortalh danger for us, and for Jordan, and for you, Mr president, and also for the free world. This can be learned from the experience of the airlifts to Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia,when the flight time from (Odessa) to Bethlehem is less than 2 hours. Ei a This is how things developed then. Later it became clear that we could not reach anagreement on a Joint formula We postponed the meeting, and. the next day we settledon the formula that enabled us to continue the negotiations by the committees wedecided to establish a day earlier. At these two moments, though, it was possiblethat we would say goodbye to each other without any agreement and would stop the Jointdiscussions. I want to explain now why we proposed the freedom of choosing a citizenship, includingIsraeli citizenship. This is am idea that I have supported for years, in the governmentsin which I took part, from the Knesset podium and in the press. The answer is againdecency, fairnessh I will say simple things without hurting others. We have neverwanted to be like ushodesia.The way to prove this to every man of good will is byfairness you accuse us of Rhodesianism and other things. Here, we are proposingfull equality of rights, antiracism, equality in everything--of course, if theychoose Israeli citizenship. 181w It should be known that since 1871 when Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine and imposedits citizenship on all the residents of these two regions, this matter of imposingcitizenship has been viewed as a wrong by international law. Therefore, we will notimpose our citizenship on anyone. We propose free choice. Nobody will be able tohurl accusations at us anymore that we want to be a second this or that. This isfairness. This is why we made the proposal. There can certainly be differentassessments. I would like a certain number to obtain our citizenship since it isnot natural for residents in a certain region all to be the owners of a singlecitizenship which is different from that of the state or that there are hundreds of thousands of people without a citizenship, such as the residents of the Gaza Strip. Therefore, carefully we proposed a free choice between Jordanian and Israeli citizenship. Somebody here got sophisticated and said that that what we proposed in Judaea andSamaria is another interim settlement. This is only pretended wisdom and is unfounded.If it says that after 5 years every element can ask for a reexamination, does this turnthe settlement into an interim settlement? Why? It is usually possible to check andexamine things even before the end of 4 or 5 years. Each one--the JordanianGovernment, the Israeli Government and the administrative counil--will be able topropose: Let us check things, maybe we can add or detract something, In fact, this framework of 5 years is entirely accidental. It was possible to write 7 or 10 or 3 years. However, man tends toward some sort of plausible frameworkr
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