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    "ocrText": "-5-\nD: No, it matters to us tremendously what these motivating factors\nbehind you and your operations.\nK: Yea, but even if my intentions were less good.\nD: If your intentions were less good, we would look for another\nman to do the job.\nK: You're welcomed to that. That is what I would really want.\nD: I know, but we are not going to let you off the hook SO easily,\nbut at the same time we X I think the basic thing we have to do\nis make you aware of\nK: I understand you. You passed your message to me.\nNow I am NOW giving you some to give to her so that she can yell\nat you too, there is no sense you being yelled at only from one side.\nD: That she has done even before your message.\nK: And I just don't want txx Jerusalem to talk itself into a masada\ncomplex in a period of enormous complexity and danger.\nS: Yes, yes, I know, but the Syrians must\nK: The Syrians, I'm sending a message.\nS: Mr. Secretary I did not ask you to beg the Syrians to be good\nchildren, you have done it before and I know.\nK: And it actually worked for a week.\nS: No, no, it didn't. There were a couple of day\nI don't think there was any basic change init. It was more dictated\nby the situation. But be as it may what I am trying to say, is that\nyou should start conditioning the Syrians in their minds that they\nare not going anywhere near what they expected.\nK: That I listen, I.have told them already a 100 times. That is\nnot the issue. I have told them, I have told Boudienme, I have\ntold Sadat that what they want is unattainable, and will not gs be\nsupported by us in any sense.\nS: I understand this. I am not dictating the crazy plan about\nhalf of the Golan Heights. I am saying that additional gesture\nshould be good of them to accept our arrangements,\nbecause\nI am fearful would not be able to go beyond this."
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