FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks- 1978 September

PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HI RICAL DIVISION AR 70-14 13N 2013
V. 26 Sep 78 N 9 ISRAEL
Now the cabinet says something which surprised me--I am turning to the foreign minister
in this case--[it said] that the United Nations will be a buffer. If the United Nations
is a buffer, this is also a precedent for the matter of the Golan Heights. Why say
this? Let us remember that the model of Sinai will serve as a precedent and foundations
for negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, for in the chapter on the principles
accompanying the Camp David agreements, there is more than a hint of the fact that the
agreement with Egypt will represent a signpost for the perplexed. (indistinct
interjection] In a minute you will hear.
First of all, Moshe, I do not deny, neither to myself nor to others, on what I am voting
and I say this frankly to both the house and the nation, not detracting from the gravity
of the matter by an iota: we are standing today with the broken truth of yesterday and
the grave truth of today, with the broken truth and the grave truth, facing the people
of the Yamit strip, people who were the nation's envoys, who have remained the envoys of
the people, they went because they were sent; they were sent with the agreement of us all.
They made a desert bloom and created a security zone; pioneers with an honest conviction.
[Unidentified MK] Not only the Yamit District, but also the Straits of Tiran.
[Peres] Here they are, coming from Russia and from America, immigrants from the Arab
countries and those born in this country. They and their children who have grown and
their fields which grew and their homes which they built, they woke up one morning to
discover that they were no longer pioneers in the oamp, but, as it were, an obstacle
to peace. Their mission was suddenly cut off and this after we told As-Sadat that if .
the soil is sacred to him, for us the settlements are sacred. This is what I said with
everyone's agreement. Today, at their side stand the people of the Jordan Rift Valley
and the people from the Golan Heights. Mr Chairman, can the Knesset give them an answer
that contains honor, security and credibility?
No less grave and even more encompassing in its gravity is the situation concerning the
future of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. It now emerges that the autonomy is not coming
instead of 242, but in addition to it and that the decisions and principles of
Resolution 242 will apply to all the territories. A joint committee, with Jordan and
Israel and the elected representatives of the territories, will have to decide, on the
basis of 22, .[as heard] and I am quoting from the document, the siting of the borders.
We will yet have. to stake out borders, together with the security arrangements. Autonomy
for security needs but, in fact it is a withdrawal in effect, and in the not too
distant future.
The autonomy, in its midday editions--and if Jordan joints in, there -will also be an
evening edition--has turned into a temporary program, not into a permanent partial agree-
ment, Mr Prime Minister, but into a passing partial agreement. According to this agree-
. ment, the military government will be abolished. The inhabitants will be given authority,
authority of self-rule and full autonomy. You can say this is not a Palestinian state.
This is a semantic game. [It has] all the indicators of a government without any
exceptions, apart from the presence of the IDF, and this, too, Mr Prime Minister--and
you must explain this to the Knesset--according to the best of my knowledge, is
restricted in time.
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