Word: gaza
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...were the words of State Department Spokesman John Hughes last week, as he called again upon Israel and the Arab states to join in peace negotiations proposed by President Reagan last September to settle the destiny of 1.3 million Palestinians who live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. King Hussein of Jordan had indicated his willingness to consider joining the peace process, but only if he had the backing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. After four meetings in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Hussein and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat seemed for a time...
...political difficulties he faces, not only from P.L.O. hard-liners but from a number of Arab states as well. Hussein then asked Arafat if he would endorse Jordanian participation in U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations, whose aim would be to establish a future relationship between Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat replied that he could not give the King a mandate to speak for the Palestinians. Arafat reportedly also put aside the idea of authorizing certain Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. to participate in future negotiations. When Hussein proposed that a joint PL.O.-Jordanian team should join...
...stake was not only the President's plan, which State Department officials concede has a "short shelf life," but whether any meaningful progress can be made toward Palestinian autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip before Israel builds so many Jewish settlements as to virtually annex the territories. The Reagan proposal called for self-government by the 720,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan. Since Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin summarily rejected the plan, the U.S. has placed its hopes on King Hussein. If he would announce his intention...
...need of the Palestinians for "something in the nature of a homeland," though he added quickly, "on the other hand, no one has ever advocated creating a nation." Apparently, Reagan was merely trying to describe the ambiguous nature of the Palestinian "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is envisioned in his Sept. 1 peace plan. The problem was that the word homeland, like so many other bits of language concerning the Middle East, has become such a buzzword that it automatically invites an angry reaction. When Jimmy Carter spoke of the need for a Palestinian homeland...
...officials hoped that King Hussein would still find a way "one fine day," as Shultz put it, to enter negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. He is expected to meet with Arafat again soon, perhaps to pursue the idea of a Jordanian-West Bank peace delegation whose makeup would be acceptable to the P.L.O. Hussein has said that he would reach a decision by March 1. But with no action on the Lebanese withdrawal talks, that statement is likely to be delayed. Says an Administration official: "Hussein set that March 1 date when it looked like...