FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

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I told Professor Brzezinski: Listen, this is a deluxe concentration camp, what are we
doing here? So he told me, according to your experience you perhaps had begun digging
a tunnel, and I told him: Ya'agov Meridor is in New York, and if things continue this
way, I will invite hit and he will immediately start working. Ya'aqov Meridor, you know,
dug the famour tunnels in th6 British concentration camps [in Kenya].
But all this was done in good spirits and things are well known from all international
conferences: the Vienna conference., .the Berlin conference, that in Versailles--in all
the international conferences someone throws out a hint that things are not working out
and he wishes to book a train--in those days people used to travel by train, not fly in
airplanes--and that he is packing and leaving. Slowly, slowly we will solve the problem.
This is what happened several times at Camp David, too, because very serious matters
were involved, and' there was a crisis even at the last moment, yesterday noon. But I
ill not reveal today the minute details of that crisis. We thought that we would not .
be able to sign, but in only 1 hour we overcame the entire crisis and could with a light
heart and a clear conscience sign. We have not given up any of the principles which we
have believed in since our youth. [end videotape]
Major Haddad Reacts
TA181358Y Jerusalem Domestic Service in Hebrew 1300 GMT 18 Sep 78 TA
[Text] The Christian militia commander in southeastern Lebanon, Sa'd Haddad, Joined -
those praising the Camp David agreements, but he voiced apprehension that Syria will try
to thwart them through an intensification of the tension in Lebanon.
Talking to our correspondent in the north, Yehezqel Hame'iri, Sa'd Haddad said that the
agreements regarding the Palestinians should oblige the Palestinians residing in Lebanon
to settle in Judaea, Samaria and in Gaza.
Yamit Settlers Protest
TA190619Y Jerusalem POST in English 19 Sep 78 p 2 TA
[By Harry Wall]
[Text] Yamit--over 500 residents of Yamit gathered in the town. plaza last night to hear
plans for persuading the government not to return the Sinai settlements to Egypt.
Civic leaders urged residents to launch a campaign which would include public protests, -
media exposure and vigorous lobbying of Knesset members in order to keep this city under
Israeli sovereignty.
Earlier in the day representatives of all the settlements in the Rafah area gathered at*
Moshav Netiv Ha'asara, where a "declaration of principles" was concluded to serve as'a -
rallying point for the inhabitants of the region.
The meeting decided: "That the Rafah settlements fervently desire peace, but that real
peace cannot be based on dismantling settlements and uprooting lives" and "that the
- -pxoposed return of the Sinai settlements is an anti-Zionist act and goes against the
history of the Jewish state.-