Word: bankes
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Israel, Javits added, must "come forward with a more precise statement of its views as to the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza." Otherwise, he said, the U.S. might be driven to try to impose its own peace plan on the Israelis and Arabs alike...
...with the Israeli decision, Washington is not inclined to try to press any peace proposals of its own. Indeed, while Washington has some ideas ready, no "U.S. plan" exists at present. Instead, the Carter Administration maneuvered to keep peace prospects alive by getting Sadat to formulate his own West Bank proposal, either alone or with King Hussein. This would counter Jerusalem's complaint that nobody else has come up with a concrete proposal for the West Bank, and it would get the two sides talking again. Later on it could pave the way for the U.S. to propose...
Washington observers feel that the next few weeks may prove crucial in determining whether the Sadat initiative can be rescued and Sadat can survive politically. For the second year in a row, an international financial consortium made up of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European countries has agreed to a multibillion-dollar aid package covering Egypt's foreign-currency needs. Though that will allow Sadat to import enough wheat to keep his people fed, they still hunger for the peace-borne prosperity he has led them to expect. Says one White...
...Washington and Jerusalem that start ed with the new Carter Administration have accelerated sharply. Begin has proved unbending in his determination to establish new settlements, even though the U.S. has urged him to go slowly. Under his aegis, 23 new settlements have been authorized or constructed on the West Bank alone, including the "archaeological dig" at Shiloh. In the previous ten years of Labor Party rule, only 28 West Bank settlements were established...
Probably the greatest irritant in the Washington-Jerusalem relationship is Begin's refusal to admit that U.N. Resolution 242 applies to the West Bank, that hilly desert area that he calls part of the Jews' homeland by "natural and eternal right." The hope was that when he came to power, he would recognize the historic necessity of giving up the West Bank with its 692,000 Palestinian in habitants. A year later, observers wondered whether even such an optimist as U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis any longer held out hope that Begin will change. Israel's leader truly...