Israel and Egypt inch back toward the bargaining table
After a troubling hiatus of suspended peace talks and intensified violence in the occupied West Bank, Israel and Egypt last week began to inch back to the bargaining table. In quick succession, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin both accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to send their top negotiators to Washington in early July. There was little cause for celebration; everyone knew that formidable differences remain on the issue of Palestinian autonomy and that no major concessions are likely to be made by either side before the U.S....
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