FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

V. 19 Sep 78 N 1'
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The problem is whether between us and the Egyptians today there will indeed be a trust,relations, whether there will be open roads, open tourism, whether there will t, Jointprojects, diplomatic relations and whether there will be understanding. If yes, thenthis is worth a lot of space. Sometimies it is even worth an airfield.
(Question] With your permission let us go back to .the Camp David summit. It seems-thatyou have etwithPresident as-Sadat--also at the Camp David summit--more often than anyother Israeli. What was the dtmosphere?Tell us something about the contents that have". been so hidden-from us inthe last few days;
[Answer] It wont do to make too mch of a mystery of Camp Davidt I think--first of all,I must point out that President Carter amazed me. I saw him, I met him once...,
[Question] The question this time was about President as-Sadat.
[Answer) You1ll excuse me, a moment. There was also another president there. There wasalso one prime minister. The stage was shared with quite a few partners. I have to pointout that President. Carter made a great impact on me. I discovered a wise, quick, brave,keen person, a person positively aggressive, and, as the prime minister put it, it
wan't Camp David, it was camp Jimmy Carter.
My relations with As-Sadat did not begin and they did not end at Camp David. They arevery interesting; I do not want to analyze them. I think they are chiefly based on ae
certain mutual trust. What we agreed upon, what we talked about in the past, we did notreiterate to each other. It was nothing of any great importance. But a kind of sedimenthas been created oi'.trust between two relatively adult .people--he is older than I am--who deal in essential polical andi security issues of two nations, which have been engagedfor 30 years in a great debate. Since the day I met him in Jerusalem, and during those timesI was with him in Egypt, and in Salzburg recently, we found a common language. We have notalways agreed This was manifested also at Camp David. If here and there there was somesubject that got, hung up >on a trivial point--no little because of my relations with him--I managed to put through things that I thought would be perhaps impossible to put through.I wont say that everything was bilt on the relationship, God forbid. But I do also hopethat the relationship that has developed between us, arid I definitely hope between ourprime minister and the president of Egypt, will be part of the landscape; not only somehill, some tank, some plane or some distance, or this or that relation. But indeed relationsbetween people will perhaps bring about more understanding; .
I merely want to: point out one thing, and I have to emphasize it all the time: The Israelination should know that we maintain the IDF on a high standard, and it will still take along time before we reach the conclusion that we can reduce the number of training.days, theyears and months of service. I hope we shall see a time when Israelis-will have to. fight.less and build their land -more. But this will not be tmorow or theiday after tomorrow.
-.Question.] Mr Weiznman, what is to be expected in the State of Israel as of tomorrow .The agreement speaks of concessions, the agreement speaks of airfields, of rural settle-ments, it speaks of an inte'im period, of an agreement the Knesset should decide uponwithin 2 weeks. What lies in store for the State of Israel in the next 2 weeks?