Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just been tentatively approved, though both the Egyptians and the Israelis had requested some changes. Then, in a bizarre and even provocative gesture, the Israeli government announced that it was launching a $20 million program to "thicken," or beef up, five Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The move was calculated by Begin and his colleagues to warn the Carter Administration that it must behave more circumspectly in its conduct of the peace negotiations, and the message got through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance quickly rebuked the Begin government, saying that the U.S. considered...
...visit last week of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances of an eventual settlement between Israel and its other Arab neighbors...
...Israelis saw it, the Saunders mission was a high-pressure effort to lure Jordan and the Palestinians into the negotiations by publicly siding with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...Carter Administration fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...Sadat expected, his Arab enemies vere quick to interpret Israel's latest actions as further proof that Begin intends never to give up either the West Bank or East Jerusalem. Ever since the beginning of his peace efforts last year, Sadat has been dangerously isolated from the Arab world. He was relieved last week when the Sudan became the first Arab state to endorse Camp David, and he also took satisfaction from an editorial in a Saudi Arabian paper, the daily Okaz, declaring that Camp David represented "an important stage in Arab history and should be recognized as an established...