Word: bankes
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...Palestinians in the occupied territories will consult with the PLO and with Jordan (who have a strong incentive to coordinate their response, since the PLO does not want a split that would allow Jordan to reestablish its authority over a part of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, and Jordan does not want a split that would allow the PLO to turn the radical elments of the Palestinian people, in the West Bank and outside, against the regime of King Hussein...
...with the Arab states. None of these is enthusiastic about a PLO-led state. Some, like Saudi Arabia, fear its potential radicalism. Others, like Syria or Iraq, would like to control the future of the Palestinian nation. Jordan, of course, would prefer to reassert its authority over the West Bank, and Egypt over Gaza. However, for tactical reasons at least, all the Arab states agree that the Palestinians must be given the right of self-determination...
...next ten or 12 months, we should keep our eye on three different arenas. First, there is the negotiation between Egypt, Israel and the U.S., which aims at giving substance to the ambiguous and open-ended Camp David agreement on a five-year, transitional autonomy scheme for the West Bank and Gaza. Second, there is the strained relationship between the U.S. (and Egypt) on the one hand, and the rest of the Arab world, which has denounced the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and attacked the Camp David agreement as unacceptable. Thirdly, there is the complicated game that goes on between...
...after such consultation, the Palestinians refuse to run for office in the West Bank and Gaza, the "autonomy" road will have turned into a dead end. The U.S., in order to heal its rift with the Arabs other than Egypt--a rift that may have serious effects on the price and quantities of Saudi oil--will have to find a new way, and return to the idea of a comprehensive settlement. If, on the contrary, the West Bank Palestinians, while denouncing the autonomy scheme as insufficient, decide, in agreement with the PLO and Jordan, to run for office...
...precisely because autonomy (rather than perpetuating Israel's grip over the West Bank and Gaza while alleviating the costs and load of occupation, as Begin seems to hope) may lead either to a dead end, or to a destination unwelcome to most Israelis, that Israel's Labor Party and many Americans still hope for a "Jordanian solution." But Hussein seems reluctant to risk compromising his kingdom's stability by imposing his rule on Palestinians who, after 12 years under Israeli occupation, appear eager for an entity of their...