Middle East - Closer To Peace? - Keith W Stump - August 1975

Keith W Stump

Four months after a negotiational deadlock forced Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to suspend his Middle East "shuttles," cautious optimism is being expressed that a new Israeli-Egyptian interim peace accord may finally be forthcoming. Hopes for a new agreement were heightened by a productive four-hour meeting in mid-July between Kissinger and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin near Bonn, West Germany. Discussing in detail the whole range of problems and issues involved in a further Israeli withdrawal from vital areas in the Sinai, the two sought to formulate the basic outlines of a new settlement package. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library