FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

PPI0VED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV2013
V. 19 Sep 78 N 30 L
- ISRAEL
The paper AL-FAJR- accuses Egypt of making a separate peace with Israel and denies that
it has the .right to speak in the'name of the Palestinians. Both the extremist papers--AL-FAJR and ASH-SHA'B--apologize for not being able to publish editorials this morning.
According to the editors, they were removed by censorship s eh
The paper AL-QUDS, on the other hand, this morning stresses the question of Jerusalem
and in an emotional editorial it deterrines that the future of the areais not depend-
ent on an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights or even from Jdaea and Saaria;
the key is the future of Jerusalem, the ownership of the holy sites. The paper appeals
to As-Sadat in a la'st-minute call not to make a peace pact with Israel without guarantees
for the return of Jerusalem into the arms of the Arabs and Islam. It reminds the rulers
of Saudi Arabia of King Faysal's vow not to abandon Jerusalem. I n r
President Navon Coimments
A18i1459y Jerusalem Domestic Service in English 1200 GT 18 Sep 78 TA
fText] In Jerusalem here is the reaction, a few minutes ago, of President Yizhaq CNavon: [begin recording] I do hope that it will open a new era in the life of the .1
peoples of the Middle East. We have rivers, you can say, of blood dividing Israel
from its neighbors and it is high time for peace to come and reign in this regionl
The peoples need it; they need it badly and I think that this agreement is a reflection
and a genuine expression of the ill of the peoples. The people themselves had ant
opportunity of expressing their will when they received so warmly As-Sadat here in
Israel and when the Egyptian people received him so warmly on his way back, when hecame toEypit* There were difficulties and obstacles on theway, but it seems that IPresident Carter made a real effort, 2nd both sides to the discussions saw the emi
portance of reaching an agreement at this state. [end recording]
GUSH EMtTNIM ESTABLISHES NEW SETTLEMENT NEAR NABULUS
TA190643Y Jerusalem Domestic. Service in Hebrew 0500 GMiT 19 Sep 78 TA
[Text] Last night Gush Exnim members demonstratively established a new settlementon a rocky hill south of Nabulus. Twenty families went there from the Qadducarp and, together with hundreds of escorts, established a hut and several tents there,
'The settlers were accompanied by MK Ge'ula Kohen, who stayed with them overnight, and
she again called foc an expression, of no confidence in the cabinet.
Haran Porat, a member of the Gush Eamnim secretariat, said at the settlement sitethat he and his colleagues were planning to. establish more such settlements. -
Our correspondent reports that the new settlement is 'located on a hill where it isassumed that the biblical Elon More was located. The settlement .is far from the high-way and there is no paved road to it. The settlers carried all the equipment to the "
site. e .a et
cur correspondent was told that military personnel in the area did not disturb the *establishment of the settlement, although IDF roadblocks were later set up on theroads near the one leading to the new settlement. - u