Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message from Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was shrill and urgent: "Our forces are under heavy Israeli attack. Enemy warplanes are overhead. We need help desperately." Visiting southern Lebanon to persuade Palestinian fighters there to accept a peace arrangement with Lebanese Christians, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader suddenly found himself under fire. Arafat and his men were besieged at Beaufort Castle-a historic Crusader fort in the shadow of Mount Hermon-not only by Christian gunners but also by Israeli artillery. Under cover of those guns, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across...
...still stalemated. However, there seemed to be a minute improvement in a procedural bottleneck that has blocked a reconvening of the Geneva Conference between Israelis and Arabs. But there was no progress on the basic issues of Israel's refusal to withdraw to its 1967 borders or to accept an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank...
...ronique) at the State Department when Vance asked: "What about Palestinian participation?" To his hosts' surprise, Dayan's reply showed some tiny signs of flexibility. He reiterated that Jerusalem remained unalterably opposed to seating a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization at the conference. Nonetheless, Israel might accept the presence of pro-P.L.O. Palestinians who are not members of the terrorist group. In response to another question from Vance, Dayan indicated that the Palestinians could be part of a Pan-Arab delegation; its members might include some Arab mayors from the West Bank...
...carefully noted that the existence of the settlements would have no influence on the final drawing of territorial lines-even though Israel has no intention of giving up all the West Bank and retreating to its pre-1967 borders. The Foreign Minister left open the possibility that Israel would accept a Pan-Arab delegation at Geneva, if the composition of its membership could be agreed upon. "Geneva is closer, every day we get closer," he said. Dayan also had kindly words for Jordan's King Hussein and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; both, he said, "do want to conclude peace...
...Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist. The P.L.O. has refused to accept the resolution, since it refers to the Palestinians as refugees rather than as a nation with rights...