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FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

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This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) material collects Israeli radio and press coverage of the Middle East peace talks from September 1978. It includes Prime Minister Begin's address to the nation before the Camp David summit and his airport statement on departure. It also contains opposition and Peace Now reactions, an interview with Moshe Arens and Hayyim Bar-Lev, parts of the Knesset debate on the Camp David accords, and remarks on Yamit settlers. The document makes no mention of UFOs.

  • p. 2 …5 Sep 78 N 3 ISRAEL There will never be a war again between us and…
  • p. 23 …partition and such a suicidal proposal has never come from Zionist leaders. MC Yehuda Ben-Meir…
  • p. 32 …at Camp David, including As-Sadat-- - I never said that the matter was unilateral--but our…
  • p. 36 …Weave been educated in making great decisions and have never demanded of others things thatwe ourselves…
  • p. 45 …have no security assu.ances., we have never, .and from no element,. asked for security guarantees…
  • p. 54 …President never despaired for even a moment, even at the gravest moments, andhe believed that the…
  • p. 57 …diary in which he maintained thatSinai was never Egyptian writes in his memoirs that, in the…
  • p. 58 …sacrificing the State of Israel--it will never gain this--but it has made the civilian…
  • p. 64 …Mr Speaker, honorable Knesset, the opposition has never had a better opportunity to be an opposition…
  • p. 75 …belief in the justice of Zionism has never lessened by even a molecule, _estpected Mr Shamir…
  • p. 81 …Never, never! igial Allon He also said never .with respect to Jerusale- . E~::identified MK)pae…
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