Friday, December 21, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Sol Linowitz, President
Carter's special ambassador
to the Middle East, said
Wednesday following his
return from initial talks in
Jerusalem and Cairo, that
Egypt and Israel have
reached "significant meas-
ures of agreement" which
have not "previously sur-
faced" and that "a reason-
able possiblity" exists that
they may reach an au-
tonomy settlement by May
1, 1980. Previously, there
had been pessimism that
the May deadline, set in the
Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty, was achievable.
Linowitz acknowledged
that "the hard issues" such
as land, water and security
problems "require much
more negotiations." But, he
pointed out, agreement has
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this concept, if we show the they refuse to be formally
been reached on such meas-
B ed.
ures as taxation, transpor- Palestinians this is what involv
Burg said his new initia-
be able to carry
tation, health, "most as-
out,"
Linowitz
said,
then
he
tive
was timely now that the
pects" of education, indus- out," will
would hope other Arabs affair of Mayor Bassam
trialization and some as- would join. Shaka of Nablus has been
pects of agriculture.
According to reliable resolved.
The May date, he said,
Israel's Knesset Speaker
was looked on as "un- sources, a member of the Yitzhak Shamir made it
achievable and not to be Egyptian negotiating team clear in a London speech
taken seriously." But now in the autonomy talks, Am-
that he supported the right
he found "real attention is bassador Ezzat Abdul-Latif,
of Jews to settle in Elon
focussed on May Day to has been holding unofficial
— and until now secret — Moreh and other places in
make it a realistic goal."
He pointed to the "re- talks with a number of West the West Bank which are
the center of political con-
newed commitment" by Bank notables.
troversy in Israel.
President Anwar Sadat
He has visited East
In a speech to Herut
of Egypt and Premier Jerusalem several times
Menahem Begin of Israel to meet with prominent supporters, he drew an
to the Camp David ac- West Bank political fig- analogy between the pre-
cords and their mutual ures despite Egypt's offi- sent day status of Elon
respect for each other, cial ban on visits by their Moreh and Ariel, another
plus "real awareness" by diplomats to Jerusalem West Bank settlement,
them of each other's prior to Jan. 26, the date and that of Nahariya, the
problems, needs and as- of normalization of rela- Jewish town north of
Acco, 30 years ago.
pirations.
tions between Egypt and
Nahariya had been
Linowitz said that the Israel.
allotted to the Arab state
Iranian crisis has "not in-
Linowitz
told
reporters
under
the 1947 United Na-
terfered in any way" with
the negotiations and their that he, too, would seek out tions partition plan and al-
"pace" is precisely as Palestinian leaders in com- though it soon came under
scheduled." However, he ing months to discuss the Israeli military control
some Israeli ministers re-
said "it would not be realis- autonomy scheme.
tic" to think that it (the Ira- Israel's chief negotiator, garded it for a time as
nian crisis) will not intrude. Interior Minister Yosef "occupied territory."
Noting that today the
Asked if Egypt and Israel Burg, also promised to open
do agree by May, would an initiative toward West town was an integral part of
the
state of Israel, rather
other Arabs join the talks, Bank and Gaza Strip (lead-
Linowitz replied, "If I were a ers. He said he intended to than "occupied territory,"
Palestinian on the West consult with them without Shamir added: "Yesterday
Nahariya, today Elon
Bank and Gaza, I don't involving them at this stage
think I would be interested" in the autonomy talks since
Moreh and Ariel."
in the autonomy proposals
thus far, since "I would ask,
what's in it for me," and
what does autonomy mean?
"However, if we flesh out
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Educated at Hebrew Uni-
versity, where he earned a
bachelor's degree in eco-
nomics and international
relations, and at the London
School of Economics, Liel
served in the Israel Defense
Forces as a lieutenant from
1966 to 1969. He was
wounded in 1968 during the
Karameh Operation
against the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization in
Lebanon.
He was the senior re-
search officer in the Cen-
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Planning in the Israel
ministry of foreign af-
fairs from 1974 to 1977. In
August 1977, he repre-
The residents of Dir el-
Khatab village held a rally
last week to protest the con-
struction of a Jewish set-
tlement at nearby Djebil
Kebir. The army sur-
rounded the village and set
up roadblocks to prevent the
mayors of other West Bank
towns from joining the pro-
test.
Earth-moving equipment
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cess road to Djebil Kebir
where the settlers from
Elon Moreh are to be moved
later this month.
Elon Moreh is to be dis-
mantled by order of the
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ture Minister Ariel Sharon,
chairman of the Ministerial
Settlement Committee, said
in the Knesset that a large
Jewish town would be built
at Djebil Kebir "and will
make a substantial contri-
bution to peace." He prom-
ised that the evacuation of
the Elon Moreh settlers
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