Word: gaza
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...always a strained alliance. While serving on the committee, Abbas quarreled publicly with his chief. When Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan last February signed an accord pledging themselves to diplomatic efforts looking toward the eventual creation of a JordanianPalestinian confederation in the West Bank and Gaza, now occupied by Israel, Abbas repudiated it on the ground that only an independent Palestinian state was acceptable. Arafat's loyalists, for their part, were openly contemptuous of Abbas. Said one, after listening to Abbas harangue a crowd about the necessity of liberating Palestine by force: "He is nothing...
...convinced that Hussein will accept such a process. But, Rabin continued, if the King wanted to assemble a Jordanian- Palestinian delegation for direct talks, "it's fine with us." Rabin said he personally favored an Arab delegation that included representatives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip because it is those territories that would be directly affected. Israel's only stipulation: that the Palestinian delegates not be members of the P.L.O. Rabin sounded somewhat optimistic about settlement prospects when, after assessing the changed state of the Muslim world and the reduced strength of the P.L.O., he concluded...
...potential stumbling block lies in the concept of Palestinian "self- determination," a term generally understood to mean the establishment of an independent Palestinian entity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel adamantly opposes such a move. Jordan's Foreign Minister Taher al Masri argued in Washington last week, however, that the Jordanian-Palestinian "confederation" that Hussein and Arafat have in mind "means that there will be no independent Palestinian state...
...exchange dragged out over eleven hours. At about the same time, 151 Arab prisoners were released by Israel on the Golan Heights and handed over to Syrian and Lebanese authorities, while 605 others were bused from jails in Israel and the Israeli- occupied territories to their hometowns in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There they were greeted by cheering crowds. The following morning the plane carrying the released Israelis, a sergeant and two privates, touched down at Hatzor Air Base, south of Tel Aviv, where the men were immediately surrounded by ecstatic relatives and friends...
...discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The King believes that this may be the last, best chance for the U.S. and its allies to negotiate a Middle East peace -- and hopes that Reagan will agree...