A PROPOSAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE PEACE TO BE APPLIED IN STAGES
A PROPOSAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE PEACE TO BE APPLIED IN STAGES I. Israel and Egypt Stage 1: Israel and Egypt sign a peace agreement including a settlement of all outstanding questions and comprising...
...For Israel, the pattern sets up at the outset the quality of the peace she is to obtain at the end, and allows her to hold important security assets until she does in fact obtain that peace...
...III...
...Egypt takes over the line of the passes, but only with troops allowed by the first disengagement agreement...
...cessation of hostile propaganda...
...It can enter into effect immediately after Egypt signs an agreement with Israel and could thus set the pace for the process of actual peaceful relations...
...It is with this in mind, as well as some additional considerations having to do with observation and water sources, that the following outline is developed...
...Israel and Syria With regard to Syria, the pattern of the settlement to aim at would be basically similar, with some local modifications...
...Besides getting back the Abu Rodeis oil fields, they can explore for resources in the rest of Sinai, except for some Israeli military areas...
...exchange of diplomatic representation...
...continued free navigation...
...also in two stages, free movement of third parties' men and goods and then movement of parties' men and goods on a non-discriminatory basis...
...These conditions include: no shooting, no infiltration...
...This stage lasts for, say, five years, during which certain conditions must prevail in order for the next stage to come into effect...
...This stage lasts for five years during which time certain conditions must prevail in order for the next stage to come into effect...
...Sinai is important because it provides potential strategic depth and cuts flying time...
...freezing and then reduction of armament levels in two stages...
...Stage 2: When all this will have taken place, Israeli forces pull back from the rest of the Golan except for three or four "tiny" positions which they retain permanently...
...A PROPOSAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE PEACE TO BE APPLIED IN STAGES I. Israel and Egypt Stage 1: Israel and Egypt sign a peace agreement including a settlement of all outstanding questions and comprising Israeli recognition of Egyptian sovereignty over the entire Sinai...
...The Golan is important mainly because of its height...
...Upon ratification, Israeli forces pull back to a line resting on the eastern slopes of the chain of hills that runs in an arch going south and east from the Hermon positions to the hills east of the southern tip of the sea of Galilee, more or less parallel to the edge of the Golan...
...The Syrians take over civilian control of the area but do not advance any troops in it...
...Upon ratification of the agreement, Israel pulls back to the line cf El Arish-Ras Muhammad...
...These conditions include: continued absence of shooting, infiltration, hostile propaganda...
...Correspondingly, Israeli forces in the area remaining under their control are limited...
...The Egyptians take full possession of Sinai, but continue not to deploy other than light desert troops beyond the passes, and other than disengagement forces between Suez and the passes...
...Stage 3: When all this will have taken place, Israel pulls back to the mandatory borders...
...As long as Israeli forces remain on the heights, their depth is not very important...
...forces, if they are still there, are dismissed, and the Egyptians and Israelis apply joint measures for inspecting compliance with the agreement...
...The area evacuated by the Israelis would be demilitarized and resettled by Syrian farmers...
...reduction of armament levels...
...freezing of armament levels...
...In exchange, the Syrians receive all the Israeli settlements intact, and, possibly, the area of el Hama, a demilitarized area in pre-1967 Israel...
...free navigation...
...It is not quite true that the Golan does not offer possibilities of stages, if one keeps in mind the difference between its security significance and that of Sinai...
...The positions retained by the Israelis would consist of small but strategic outposts controlling the access routes from the Golan to mainland Israel and vice versa, the Banias source of the River Jordan and an observation spot in the northwest of the Golan...
...This pattern settlement thus recognizes from the outset Egypt's title to all of Sinai and establishes from the first day a definite five-year timetable for her taking actual possession of most of it, and an additional five years for taking possession of the remainder...
...full-fledged diplomatic relations...
...Israel and Jordan With regard to Jordan, the agreement would confirm the present cease-fire lines as final boundaries and would include provisions concerning free port rights, open bridges, freezing and then reduction of armament levels, and so on...
...The area they evacuate is taken over by small, light Egyptian desert forces...
...Joint arrangements would be made to inspect compliance...
...forces deploy in the area and give way gradually to joint inspection patrols...
...reconstruction of Kuneitra and return of Syrian civilians and farmers...
...These provisions would cover the question of compensation for those Palestinians who would opt for Jordanian citizenship...
...Stage 2: When the preceding conditions have been fulfilled, the Israelis pull back to a line comprising essentially Sharm el Sheikh and a road linking it to Israel...
...free movement of third party persons and goods...
...Between the passes and the new Israeli line, there can be either UN troops or joint Egyptian-Israeli patrols...
...movement of men and goods on a non-discriminatory basis between the parties...
...Stage 1: As in the case of Egypt, a full peace agreement is signed...
...This stage lasts for seven years, during which the following conditions must prevail before the next stage comes into effect: absence of shooting, infiltration, and hostile propaganda...
...In addition, the agreement with Jordan would have special provisions relating to the Palestinian question because Jordan was the previous sovereign in the West Bank and because it has a large number of Palestinians in its population...
...The Jordanian-Israeli agreement need not be applied in stages...
...An integral annex regulates the conditions of the Israeli evacuation...
...In addition, as an insurance against longer term contingencies, the United States would offer Israel a mutual security pact...
...Correspondingly, Israel deploys only limited forces on its side of the border, and the two sides apply joint measures of inspection...
...satisfactory application of the agreements with Syria and the Palestinians (or, at least, non-involvement by Egypt in possible disputes...
...The Egyptians take over civil administration of Sinai and fly their flag in its capital...
...Israel would maintain only restricted forces in these positions...
Vol. 1 • October 1975 • No. 4
