Summary
Carter’s national security adviser, who in Perceptions of Palestine’s account (see also part 2, lines 1676-1700) came under particular attack from Israel’s U.S. supporters as allegedly anti-Israeli, grew increasingly impatient with the PLO after the September 1977 rebuff, made the well-known “bye-bye PLO” statement to Paris Match, saw aspects of Vance’s transitional arrangement in Begin’s December 1977 home-rule plan, and is quoted by Quandt’s May 1978 memorandum detailing how far the United States had already adjusted its position downward (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 1760-1763, 1826-1833, 1856-1863, 1864-1881).
Details
- Brzezinski has called Mondale’s later posture a passive one “tilted in favor of the Israelis”, and observed that whereas Carter almost never thought of foreign policy’s impact on domestic politics, Mondale rarely considered foreign policy in any other terms (part 2, Perceptions of Palestine, lines 1702-1722).
- In February 1979 Brzezinski and Hamilton Jordan were telling Carter they believed the Israelis were attempting, by obstinacy in the treaty negotiations, to ensure Carter was not reelected (Perceptions of Palestine, lines 1936-1939).
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Jimmy Carter, Cyrus Vance, Menachem Begin, Palestine Liberation Organization