POST CORRESPONDENT REPORTS ISRAELI PROPOSALS, CABINET DISCORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-158-5-14-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: July 21, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/11 : LOC-HAK-158-5-14-6
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POST CORRESPON~3ENT RE?DRYS ISRAELI PROPOSALS, CABINET DISCORD
TA21?J~47 TWE JERUSALEM POST IN EtdGLTSH 21 JULY 75 P I TA
C8Y JERUSALEM POST DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT DAVID LANDAU)
CTEXT) Af~ERSCAN TECH!~ICIANS WOULD MAN FOUR SURVEILLAPdCE
STATTC3NS IN THE SIt~AI PASSES AREA--IN ADDTTIO{d TO THE TWq Tp
BE' i~IA~~NED (ONE EACH) BY ISRAEL AND EGYPT-- UNDER ISRAEL' S
LATEST INTERIM SETTLEMENT PRO?pSALS. ~'HE UNITED STATES ITSELF
WAS ALREADY AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO THTS I~7EA, IT WAS RELIA9LY
LEA7vED YESTERDAY.
T?-tE CABTPtET SAT LATE' INTO LAST NIGHT t7ISCUSSING THE STAGE C)F
TWE ;NEGOTIATIONS, AND TKE SIGNIFICANCE pF CAIRO' S REFUSAL Tp RE?dEfa
T W E t1 ~t E F tYl A iN{7 A T)r.
FOr~ETGN iY)TNISTER YIGAL ALLOtN HAD TpLD 'fNE C~ItNISTERS ltd AN EARLIER
rA3I~dE'?' SESSTQRt YESTERDAY MORidING THAT ISRAEL `~tAS PURSUING
T?{E NEGOTIATI(3!~1S WITt~40UT REGARD t:'OR THE P2E4J CO+~PLICATION POSED
BY TWE MA"dDATE RE:NE;o1AL.
TuE GENERAL FEELT~tG A"1pNG INFORMED SOURCES ,JAS THAT THE RECENT
PROGRESS ACWIEVED Ttd T?~E ?NEGDTIATIONS WAS BEING MAINTAINED
AND T~?AT TuE CWAf~GES OF A SETTLEMENT LOOKED FAIRLY BRIGHT. AT
TWE SAME TIi~E, THESE SOURCES DISt~'.ISSE'D REPORT'S FROKI WASHINGTON
THAT THE SETTLEMENT 'SAS "AS GOOc~ AS IN THE BAG." trGYPT WAS STILL
DUE Tq RESPOS~D TO ISRAEL" S LATEST PROPOSALS, APdt~, WHILE
ISRAEL !COPED FOR A BROADLY PO^aT?'IVE RESPgNSE, THERE WOULD
DOt1STLESS STILL. BE tNEIGHrY ISSUES O[d NEGpTIATE, .BOTH WITH
EGYPT AN17 0~? THE i3ILATERAL ISRAEL-!1. S. PLAtdE.
IT' ~.~1AS STILL UNCLEAR, f~0~tE0VER, NO!J IF AT ALL THE SECURITY
COUNCIL WOULD BE ABLE' TO RESOLVE THE' UNEF MAN33ATE COtdUNDRU~'
A"~D I'0 ~s1!~AT EXTE^IT THIS MIG~iT YET Ii~PE'DE THE PROGRESS OF TNE"
~I4GOTIATi0?d 5.
TH'E' LATEST' ISRAELI PR0P05ALS ARE SEEN BY OBSERVErRS AT T?dE
P'~Of3UCI' OF A COi9PROc~ISE WWICH EMERGED FROM WITHIN THE ISRAELI
N"v.,30rIATI"!G TEAM AFTER LONG AND SOr~ETIMES DISuARMC3NIC11~5 DISCUSSTOPJ.
tt?UCH OF THE DISCORD CENTERS p!N THE IS,RAELT LI~?E OF ~1ITHrDRAWAL
~~CR~'H OF THE PASSES, TO THE ~IEDITE?~RANEAEN COAST. PRIME
Mtn?T:SI'E'R RABIC? A.N~7 DEFENSE'--MIyISTE'R PEKES Fgt)ND THEMSELVES
REP.EATEi7LY AT JDDS OVER T~-IS iCEY LI1tE UPON v~hICH NESTS, TO A
LANCE' EXTE'1?T, T~{F' T~ErE`dSE" OF THE AIR' SASE AT RE,FIDIM.
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/11 : LOC-HAK-158-5-14-6
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MR PE':~E"S~ IS UPaDFRSrtOOD TO HAVE' FELT THAT THE PREMIER, IP1 HIS
?1E'ETI:'dGS ~r1ITH MESSRS. FORD AP)D KISSING ER its WASHTi~GTON LAST MONTH
.a";D ',JITH DR KISSIPdGER AGAI!V TN GERMAPdY THIS MONTH, HAD iNDTCATE`D
C~?EATE'~ ISRAELI CO?~ECESSIOn1S TN ?'HE NORTH THAN THE NEGOTIATING
TEAi~) HAD I~~? FACT AUT}{~J,gIZEi7.
FOLLb',.Jlid T~{E PREMIER'S WASHINGTON IhEETING, ISRAEL SENT
A "RE'UTSED" MAP TO DR K.ISSINGER WHICH S~'OOD FIRiY1 ON 'THE JIDDI-
RC~~1Ai~I LIME. IN BOrdN, ?~{O~.JEVER, DR. KISSINGER, SAID HE' Dt~L',BTE3 IF
E'GYPT' WOULD ACRE" TO THI5 AND AGAIP~ PRESSER FOR~Ft{RTHEI~ ISRAELI
CONCESSIONS IN THE NORTH. ~~
~ h1R. PEKES, IT IS UNDERSTOOD, WAS ALSO DIS5ATISFiE"D WITH THE
POSITION SU}3MITTED BY THE PREf~ILR ON THE GULF OF SUEZ COAST
AREA, WHERE ~7R. RABIN OFFERED EGYPT A WIDER SWATHE OF LA N{7 THAN
THE' DEFEP}SE MIVISTER `W0~lLD HAVE' THOUGHT PRUDENT.
~~;R. PEKES IS ALSO UNDERS?'OOD TO FEEL THAT THE CONCESSIONS
OFFERED ON THE PASSES T}{EMSELVES WERE T00 FAR-~-REACHING. }tOWEVER
!-1E BE'LIEUES THEY CArk $E "CO~1PE~lSATED" FOR BY A DIRECT AMERICAN
rNVO1,v~MEr;T, I'~! THE MANNING OF THE SURVEILLANCE STATIONS.
UNDER ISRAEL'S PROPOSALS, THE AMERICAN CONTINGENT OF TRAINED
TECHNICIANS MOULD ALSO SUPERVISE THE EXISTING ISRAELI SUSURVEILLANCE
FACILITY AT Ui~lt~ HASHIl3A, !JHIC}I 4JCULD REMAI,'V IN ISRAEL'S }{ANDS,
AS 'JELL AS AN wGYPTIAN FACILITY TO BE LOCATEi7 AT THE EASTERN END
OF THE JIDDI PASS.
THE ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS BELIEVE' THAT APJ AMERICAN PRESENCE'
~r10ULD BE C01-SIDERABLY MORE STABLE AND i~ORE RELIA9LE THAN A
UPI r0'~CE IS APT TO BE AT TIME'S OF CRISIS--ALTHOUGH, OF
C,OUi~SE, THERE IS PdO 4~'ISH' TO DISPENSE WITH UNEF AS THE POLICIP~G
FORCE OF T}{E BUFFER ZONE'--A ROLE WHICH THE UNITED WOULD BE
Ut~1~,JILLI!~}S TO TAKE ON.
FOREIGN i'~liPdISTER ALLON, TT TS UNDE'RSTOCD, FIRST RAIiEp THE
POSSIBILITY OF A U~lTTED STATES iNVOLVE~"ENT IPl THE PEACE!{EEPTNG
EFFORT BACK IN THL SUMMER OF 1974 WHEN THE INTERIM TALKS WERE
T'/~dTATiVE'LY LA1.}IVCHED. NIS PROPOSAL tJAS FOR AN Ai`f1ERIGAN POLICING
FOR"E--A~~1~ TuIS MET WITH DNLY LUKE+~ARi~ ENTNt1SIAS~; IN WASHINGTQ~`J.
i~i;R. ALLOPJ HAS RETURNED TO THr TD EA, Iv VARIOUS FORMS, SEtIE'RAL
TI~;45 IPk THE COURE OF THE' PAST YEAR.
THE' ISRAELI HOLD ON THE EASTERN APPROACHES OF THE PASS>vS WILL
I?YCLL'uE', IT TS LEARPI, JEBEL JIDDI, THE' COM~~1Ai`dDIh~G HEIGHT BEZWEE`P'
rUE E'~'dTRAP~CE`S OF THE T~JO PASSES.
AT THE ~"ORA)ING CABINET SESSION YrSTE.RDAY, FOREIGN MIiJISTER
ALLON REVIEWED THE i~OSLE~1 FOREIGPI MI~dISTERS' DECISION TO PRESS
FO,R ISRAEL' S SUSPEPISIO!J FROM THE UN APED WARNED THAT THE MOSLEM
BLOC WOULD TRY TO PER5UAD11 THE NOi51-AI,.IGN,ED COPI~'ERENCE IN LItrA
"!E'XT MO~~T}? TO ADOPT THE SAt~lE DECISION. ISRAEL WAS RALLYING ITS
FRIE!~tDS TN THE THIJ WORLD AND IN EUROPE TO STAP{D FIRM AGAINST
TuE MOSLE'~~1 EFFOi~T, AND INI''IAL REACTIONS FROM AMOtVG THE VETERAN
UPJ ME'i~18E'R-STATES WAS '90T DISCOURAGI~'JG, MR ALLON REPORTED.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/11 : LOC-HAK-158-5-14-6