Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992
A Lost Chance for Peace
By Arthur Hertzberg
Almost sixteen years ago, in the summer of 1977, I brought Menachem Begin, who had just been elected prime minister of Israel, an informal message from a friend in Jimmy Carter's White House. The Americans, the message went, wanted Israel to feel secure from attack, but they could not possibly accept Likud's ideological claim to the undivided land of Israel. If the new prime minister held to this claim, there could only be trouble between Washington and Jerusalem.
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