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...popularity in Israel. During his Washington visit last month, Begin affably insisted that "everything" was negotiable in the Middle East. Then, as soon as he got back to Jerusalem, he confounded the Carter Administration by legalizing three previously unauthorized Israeli settlements that had been built on the West Bank. More than that, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan announced that Israel would accept no foreign rule-meaning even Jordanian-on the West Bank. What, everyone wondered, might the unpredictable Begin do next...
Last week the Premier added to his reputation for springing surprises. First, his government announced that it would extend to Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza the welfare benefits and child labor laws that cover Israeli citizens. It could certainly be argued that Jerusalem's aims were humanitarian rather than political, as the government stoutly insisted. But the move also looked very much like a deliberate extension of Israeli authority over territories that Begin not only considers to be part of Israel, but insists on calling by their biblical names, Judea and Samaria...
Then, two days later, in blunt defiance of previous warnings by Jimmy Carter against further Israeli colonization of occupied lands, Jerusalem announced that it would build still more settlements-a grand total of 35-in the occupied territories. Three are to be established immediately on the West Bank. The government's lame explanation for the decision: the new settlements were included in a plan approved by the previous regime...
While Israel's Menachem Begin was diigging in deeper on the West Bank issue, off in Beirut his Palestinian foes last week took a big if unheralded step toward peace. TIME has learned that after extensive negotiations-urged on them, for the most part, by Soviet diplomats-the so-called Palestinian "rejectionists" have decided to end their defiant stand against peace on any terms with Israel and agree with the larger Palestine Liberation Organization on the goal of securing an independent state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The agreement on a limited but attainable Palestine clears...
...most Palestinian leaders have long since given up the idea of driving Israel into the sea. Lately, even their hazy notion of a secular state of Palestine embracing Arabs, Jews and Christians has also faded (although Israel's Begin, if he manages to annex the West Bank and its 650,000 Arabs, may yet accomplish something like that...