FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

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A senior U.S, official in Washington this evening gave clarifications on the framework
agreement regarding Judaea and Samaria, and among other things he revealed that Israel
will soon begin evacuating a considerable number of its soldiers from Judaea, Samaria and
from the Gaza Strip. The official said that this is being done in accordance with the
agreement signed last night. According to him, Israel will reduce its forces in those
two regions to 6,000 to 10,000 troops. Those units will be concentratr.: in defined areas
in the first days of the implementation of the agreement.
The senior U.S.. official noted at the sane tine, however, that a full-scale Israeli with-
d rawal from Judaea and Samaria depends on the negotiations between Israel, Egypt and Jordan,
together with the inhabitants of the terri ories.
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Arens Rabin Interviewed
TA180837Y Jerusalem Domestic Television Service in Hebrew 0500 GMT 18 Sep 78 TA
[Tezt] In order to discuss what was achieved at the Camp David conference and President
Carter's announcement and that of Prime Minister Menahem Begin and the president of Egypt,
Anwar as-Sadat, we have invited to our studio in Tel Aviv the chairman of the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Prof Moshe Arens, the former prime minister and
Knesset member, Yizhaq Rabin. In Tel Aviv the moderator is our political correspondent,
Elimelekh Ram.
[Ran] Gentlemen, the prime minister said: We have not yet brought peace, there is a long
process of negotiations still in front of us, and the first question is: What are the
main problems which will have to be overcome before peace is achieved? Professor Arens,
please.
(Arens] That question is difficult to answer, since we do not know exactly what was agreed
on and what has not yet been agreed on. In fact, we only know one thing, that it has been
agreed not to agree--and that is on the issue of the settlements. It may be that beyond this .
there are other issues. According to the information given us up to now, there have been
far-reaching concessions here in the original Israeli positions, or in Israel's positions
before we left for Camp David. It is not clear what more has been left.
[Ram] Does the future of the. settlements, in your view, appear to be a condition for
As-Sadat's agreement to signing a peace treaty?
[Arens] I think that, according to the reports we have Just heard, this is what has to
be understood, nambiguously.
[Ram] Mr Rabin, what, in your view, will be the hard points to deal with?
[Rabin] Before I deal with details, I would like to say that we have now watched, emo-
tionally, a far-reahing event as regards the uture of the State of Israel, the future
of the area and I have no doubt that this is an opening for a new period, *a period which
can really guarantee peace to the State of Israel.
Althou'igh the details are not kcnown, it i_ already possible to say that both sides have
conceded. As I see it, the Israeli conaessions were also significant and even painful,
but Egypt also conceded.