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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.

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  • p. 48 …peace with cooperation, with ambassadors and visits. Really, I wish for you to be able to…
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I do not know.the details -seems to me that the p Yet One thing is clear: peace comes before -all else. Itseam tedproposal I made will now be most realistic and will have to bepossibilities ofear e aParts I have not yet publicized. These concern thewsi biltie ofcryn8 out development plans in the Sinai if an agreement is reachedwith Egypt and water can be carried from the Nile bth for them and for us. This opensa great era for us and for our sons and grandsons, an era of farreaching significance[end recording)
Kollek Concerned About Jerusalem
TA181406Y Jerusalem Domestic Television Service in Hebrew 1200 GMT 18 Sep 78 TA
[Text] According to reports from the White House, at this stage the question of the -
future of Jerusalem in the expected agreement r. It was only said that onthis issuea essages would be exchanged between Prime Minister Begin and Presidentas-Sadat.I
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek sent a message of con
and thanked him for the great achievemet atCa Dogatulations to the prime minister
said, he is concerned, now more than ever, about maintainint the same time, Kollek -
A real peace agreement will be one that insu t meraiti the unit of Jerusalem fIsrael, says Mayor Kollek. res Jerusalem's status as the capital o
West Bankers, Others React -
TA180958Y Jerusalem Domestic Television Service in Hebrew 0500 OT 18 Se 78 TA
[Excerptsw Here are some up-to-date reactions which we received a few minutes ago,arnd some we received earlier. iitsao
The mayor of Bethlehem told our correspondent that this is a first and welcome steptoward a real peace. In the opinion of Elyas Fray, the freezing of setlcmet sefirst step to solving the problem of Judaea and Samaria eAs o settlements is a
proposes waiting to see the entire agreement As for autonomy, Mr rayf
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custafa Dudin, an opponent of the P , did not hope for a better result than that
hich came out of the conference. Dudin hopes that the entire Arab world will be ,1
blessed by the agreement, He believes that there will be oent s orl the e
in towns in the West Bank; however, te i l be pponents of the agreement
East peace process wil increse. p pation -of the Jordanians in the Middle
PLO supporters in the West Bank refused to react and thethings develop. y prefer to wait and see how
The, leaders of the Rafah Approaches Action Committee are meeting at this moment in anemergency session to discuss the inmlications of the eace aee ent t be sind an
-gypt on settlement in the Yamit District. A member of the action committee, Ysi aas,tld our correspondent for settlement affairs, Yigarore To our ceree, os itMaa-as again been raised as a barrier to peace. The cessation of settlementtisea mistwhich casts doubts on the Zionism in Eretz Yisra el over ast esT e isma mistake - [ommittee is waiting for additional details on the fate of settleme The Yamit Action -prior to deciding on how it will act and ract nt in the region
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