Word: gaza
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...countries around the world, had come to make a number of fateful choices. Foremost among them was how to deal with President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan. The proposal calls for self-government, though not statehood, for the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in association with Jordan. The U.S. and Israel have both ruled out P.L.O. participation in any peace negotiations, but Washington has urged the P.L.O. to allow Jordan's King Hussein to begin talks with Israel on behalf of the Palestinian population in the territories...
...turned out, the Phalangists did not leave by 5 a.m. Saturday. They remained and continued their murderous harassment in the vicinity of Gaza Hospital, finally departing at 8 a.m., only after receiving a further warning from the Israeli divisional commander in charge of the troops in the area, Brigadier General Amos Yaron. What they left behind was death and outrage...
...stake is not only Washington's attempt to break the deadlock over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, but also the far broader objective, set out in Reagan's peace initiative last September, of solving the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan...
Administration officials privately expressed the hope last week that with Sharon out of the Defense Ministry, Begin would prove more flexible on both the troop-withdrawal talks and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "Sharon was the most serious obstacle to everything this government has been attempting to do," said a Government expert on Middle East affairs. "He had his own agenda, his own foreign policy." From Washington's viewpoint, it would also be best if Begin did not call elections in the foreseeable future because an interim government would probably only mark time, and thus precious months...
...resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, largely because it makes no mention of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and has since annexed. In addition, Syria's view is influenced by the fact that the Soviet Union is its principal arms supplier. The Soviet Union has begun...