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    "ocrText": "net\nTELECON\nDinitz/Kissinger\nOctober 26, 1973\n10:58 p. m.\nD.\nis transmitting it over the telephone to the Prime Minister\nthis minute. As soon as he is finished reading it I will go back on.\nK. I will give you the President's reaction. Right now if you want it.\nD. Sure, I will go back to my office. Just a moment.\nK. Let me give you the President's reaction in separate parts.\nFirst he wanted me to make it absolutely clear that we cannot permit\nthe destruction of the Egyptian army under conditions achieved after a\nceasefire was reached in part by negotiations in which we participated.\nTherefore it is an option that does not exist. We will support any\nmotion in the UN that will\nSecondly, he would like from you no later\nthan 8:00 a. m. tomorrow an answer to the question of non-military\nsupplies permitted to reach the army. If you cannot agree to that,\nwe will have to support in the UN a resolution that will deal with the\nenforcement of 338 and 339. We have been driven to this reluctantly\nby your inability to reach a decision. Whatever the reasons, this\nis what the President wanted me to tell you is our position. An answer\nthat permits some sort of negotiation and some sort of positive\nresponse on the non-military supplies, or then we will join the other\nmembers of the Security Council in making it an international matter.\nI have to say again your course is suicidal. You will not be permitted\nto destroy this army. You are destroying the possibility for\nnegotiations which you want because you are not making possible\nD. Your proposal to let the army go is very close to our proposal.\nK. You can make any proposal you want to us and we will transmit it.\nWe are not transmitting anything to the Egyptians. We have not had\nan answer to the last message, but that only went out two or three\nhours ago. Maybe it will turn out they will accept your proposal and\nI will have a drink with you. As it stands now it is our official\nposition that if you do not make some proposal along these lines,\nwe will have to go along with the majority of the Security Council.\nWe can probably make a proposal and you can delay the implementation\nof it on practical grounds and get a little more time.\nD. If we make an offer on the supplying of non-military supplies?"
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