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Dobrynin
Oct. 6
D: Henry, how could they?
K: You see they are going to lose. It is not a case where we
are asking. Not like India and Pakistan.
D: I understand. The military point of view. I cannot argue
with you. You know the situation better. I am trying to
understand the situation better politically. Million or half a million.
K:
They have next to nothing.
D: What is the question asking them to return somewhere if
they have nothing.
K: We have two choices; we can let this war continue until the exact
calibrated moment when the Israelis have pushed out of every
territory but before they start heading for Damascus. If we are
lucky and hit that moment exactly right we can hit the ceasefire
then. Probability is that the Arabs can hold on another 24
hours and then going to retret to their capital and wait for winter.
D: I understand what the situation really is. But for us to go to the
Arabs and say look here I don't know how many you have one
-
one or two miles but you have to go back. They say you invite
us to give back territory that belongs to us.
K: Can you not say that it was your understanding that an effort
was going to be made for negotiations. They have proved their
point of the urgency in which they see this and this is a good
psychological moment for them to make a generous gesture
rather than wait until the outcome of these hostilities.
By Monday evening they will be flown out of there anyway.
D: I understand.
K: This is a new strategy of using the threat of ones own defeat.
D: I know. There are many that could be said. The question is from the
practical way.
From a practical point of view because they put
on us all the cats and dogs. On the Russians because we asked them
to
give
back land which we have already said
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