Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinians, since there was no one in a position to speak with authority for those West Bank residents. Although King Hussein last week reportedly was willing to renew conversations with Yasser Arafat on whether Jordan should open talks with Israel on the future of the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. leader's besieged position in Tripoli made him seem irrelevant to any negotiations...
...stay on as the head of a fractured and weakened P.L.O. Under such circumstances he would be in no position to talk again with King Hussein or do anything to encourage Hussein to enter into negotiations with Israel over the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. If, on the other hand, Arafat were removed from the scene, the P.L.O. might lose its claim to being the sole legitimate representative ol the Palestinian people. That, in turn, might free Hussein and the West Bank municipal leaders to pursue the 1982 Reagan peace plan, which has called...
...perceive the opportunity when, at an Arab summit in Fez last year, he came as close as he ever had to endorsing Israel's right to exist. In April he entered into negotiations with King Hussein on President Reagan's plan to link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Although Israel had rejected the plan outright, there was just a possibility that if Hussein and Arafat could reach agreement, the U.S. would be able to press Israel to begin talks with Hussein...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank. "We Palestinians must be the first people to suffer a civil war even before the creation of our state." He was speaking, with grief and horror, of the photographs he had seen of the fighting in Tripoli. Like others throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he was devastated at the sight of Palestinians killing Palestinians...
...easily challenged, most probably by King Hussein of Jordan. "The King would be released from previous restraints and could enter into negotiations [with Israel and the U.S.] if he wanted to," said the politician. "And if he called for the support of the people in the West Bank and Gaza, he would...