Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task of bringing about an Israeli-Lebanese agreement after four frustrating months of negotiations. Much more than a signed piece of paper was at stake. Success not only would boost the chances of resuscitating President Reagan's peace plan for Unking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan, but dispel the notion that the Reagan Administration is clumsy in its conduct of foreign affairs...
...sending Secretary of State George Shultz to the region this week. His stated mission is to wrap up the withdrawal negotiations, but the hastily arranged trip is also an attempt to revive the President's moribund peace plan, according to which the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip would be linked to Jordan...
...stake was the future of the 1.3 million Palestinians who live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's goal is to accelerate the Jewish settlement of the West Bank, filling it with so many Israelis that the process of colonization will be irreversible. Indeed, on the same day the talks between Arafat and Hussein broke down, Israeli newspapers reported a government plan to build 57 more settlements in the West Bank, in order to achieve the goal of putting 100,000 Israeli settlers in the territory by 1986. Arafat...
...Administration had been reluctant to tie the two issues so closely together because it might encourage Israel to stand pat in Lebanon, knowing it could threaten its control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza trip...
...requires the active participation of the Palestinians themselves. By the same token, surely Arafat must by now realize that no nation, let alone Israel, can afford to deal with a Soviet-equipped pseudo-military organization unwilling to bend in its insistence on total control over the West Bank and Gaza...