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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.

  • p. 15 …Embassy, I- can pull them by the hairand send them to Cairo, We also have people…
  • p. 32 …ISRAEL Whether it .will be flights to Cairo or ground transport or a regional communications center…
  • p. 48 …the same turn of phrase, he in Cairo and I in Jerusalem: Let us, turn a…
  • p. 76 …The Egyptians would have returned to Cairo, we to Jerusalem, the Americans to Washington and I…
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[.p=<ch by Fore'ig;n N;inister Mosnie Dayar to the Knesset--live]
-. ! ...7 =P =k^, ..... :.able Kr =_: -..- - nas--oUSJ. pressure on us at Camp David
S- -.. ed o: hinted tha i- -_:s-dd nct meet their demands, proposals or
,.'. .- ,::.-ou _d.-_ aid to Israel in economic matters, in
- d :evr : -- _ unde' pressure at Camp David, the same
-o - .:t President Carter's pressure; he
-a -_ae agreement we would be viewed as
h..-._ ..3 pessu . ;.d n^ow: the pressure with ourselves
- egtations with Egypt--and the price that
- it, betwn tn' hop_ --- total peace with normal relations--this is
S-1 nd I kncw th -th -ra_-:--et.e:_bers who say that this is not peace;
S a-cd=O="°a prop^s=l- whi"-. =_eak abcut the normalization of relations as
or the f "-i----- at Camp David--between the proposal for a
ca he demand f- a ----l :ithdrawal, a total withdrawal of the army-._._. _ca" :i ;draw"a.i. cf c iv ilia.. ,
"' et '-b' ;.atar. that :e came here with a fait accompli. We
..- : .c h t .aits accompl±s, ~_ .-- :6 .roug..ht a recommended ropos
- n .it vot, :-._.. __n turn this proposal into a basis for negotia-
.... __ _ . :.__.. _. < iece of paper. If the Knesset approves
St basi for. peace negotiations with Egypt,
00ethis picyc-al another piece of paper will be added t
-eYs hits cf pap:-. This is what the Knesset has to decide,
- ~'- w=c-- '.esset has to face is if we reject this
- -"--= ". -- pa _ en tiorrow and the day after, next e
-mce convenient and which conditions will
t_ bo-btter - 1 to be able to achieve peace then. Will it
r wcld is united? With the United States
- - -te- - - e easier for us? Is King Husayn of Jordan -
th- h c=-Q-i - 's-wers now and his rapprochement with Syria--hh years g og -: becc ing easier for us to reach an agreement?- 7 inicc,_ th- miliary government for another- 10 years
"'=-'= '10 years and the criticism that is showered.--"------ h c-- -- c-------ethat we have on the United States--
_ .ut-e~ Does anyone have the security that
_--at :ill be ccf'rtable for a settlement
c- -" ' -"=. ?We have gone through these periods,
- ...._ . : - io i-. 1948 when Ben-Gurion. was pri-ne
- - _s._reement on the borders as they existed at
cthe time. The Arabs did not agree to this,t his.
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