Begin makes no concessions on the Palestinians
Winston Churchill once observed that "jaw-jaw is better than war-war."
Jimmy Carter last week showed that he accepted this advice. Playing host to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in Washington, a week after conferring with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Carter won an agreement that the two sides would keep talking, on an accelerated schedule, about autonomy for the Arabs living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That was all: there was no break-through whatever on substantive issues but then, Carter did not seek any.
That he did...
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