Documents / FOIA release
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.
PPROVED FOR RELEASE C A ISTORICAL DIVISION AR 70-14 - OV201 V. 26 Sep 78 N 12 ISRAEL The expected burden is great because if Jordan joins the negotiations it is clearthat it will open with new conditions. If Jordan does not join and Egypt enters thenegotiations it will make things hard for itself on the Egyptian clause without makingthings easy for us on the Jordanian clause. If neither of them join, a Palestinianentity will be consolidated. If nothing happens the problem will remain open withwhich the whole world will be busy and which will plae a burden on-peace,'will committhe United States, will. strengthen the rejectionist front and might even bring abouta renewed Geneva conference, as President Carter's national security adviser saidyesterday. If Syria follows Egypt it will demand that the model of Sinai be applied to the Golan Heights. It is not difficult to guess.who .will support these demands. [Unidentified MK] No, we.will not support this. [Peres] If Syria does not follow, Amnon, we, the Alinement brought up a differentplan. Our plan did not have a majority and was not accepted, I cannot make a choicewhich is imaginary... [Unidentified MK] You want to walk between the raindrops, but this is impossible! [Peres] The rejectionist front will seek ways to express its dissatisfaction, almostcertainly with threats and with terror. Calm in the south will be accompanied bytension in the north. Members of the Knesset, the issue of multiplying the settlements is not simply amatter of interpreting the agreement. Under the conditions that have been created,it is hard to see how the cabinet will continue in its .policy of many Allon Mores,and the policy of removing Allon Mores is not so pleasant, as this cabinet has learnedafter it belieyed that it :would not have.:t.o do this.. We still face the serious issue of Jerusalem. In the past 11 years a dynamic manhas headed the city--Teddy Kollek--who has shown a development drive and wisdom inrelations. This city and its leader should today. get comprehensive and maximum aidso ,that.reality... [Unidentified MK] If you win on the issue of Jerusalem, you would divide it! [Peres] ... overcomes the hard and fast things set out in the exchange of letters onthe future of the. city. Mr Prime Minister, .before you went to Camp David you madea speech on television. You settled partisan accounts. I am not settling partisanaccounts. Teddy Kollek will.in any case be elected. What he should be given is thenecessary aid. - [Unidentified correspondent] ''Of c'urse, the arguments here on the floor center onelection propaganda .Shimlon Peres is conducting for (?Kollek). [Peres] Members of Knesset, after having defined most openly the balance of thispolicy which we were not responsible for shaping but in which we have found ourselves-~Iand. there is no- alternative--one must also take a look at the chance that lies in thedelivery room itself.
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