Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military intelligence, including technical information concerning captured Soviet-made weapons, that it had gleaned from the fighting in Lebanon. Four days after President Reagan announced his peace plan, which included a request for a freeze on the building of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stubbornly allocated $18.5 million for the construction of eight new settlements in the West Bank...
Status of East Jerusalem. Reagan urged "participation by the Palestinian inhabitants of East Jerusalem in the election" of a self-governing authority for the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli communiqué says that Jerusalem is not mentioned in Camp David and that such voting would in effect lead to its repartitioning. True, Jerusalem is not cited in the accords, but the accompanying Egyptian and American letters clearly indicate that two of the parties do not acknowledge Israel's authority over the entire city...
...Autonomy. Reagan in his letter to Begin defined this phrase as giving "Palestinian inhabitants real authority over themselves, the land and its resources." Israel argues that the phrase means giving Palestinians the right to govern themselves, but not authority over the land and resources of the West Bank and Gaza. The meaning of "autonomy" was deliberately left undefined in the accords. According to U.S. participants in the talks, Camp David envisioned a transfer of authority linked to resolution of Israel's security concerns. Says an Egyptian official: "Whenever we had a difference of opinion in the autonomy talks...
Association with Jordan. Reagan proposed "ties between the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan" as a method for achieving a durable settlement. Israel says that Camp David makes no reference to this approach. Indeed, the accord leaves open to negotiation the final status of the territories, but the document explicitly states that "Jordan will be invited to join the negotiations on the basis of this framework...
Sovereignty. Reagan ruled out "Israeli sovereignty or permanent control of the territories." Israel responds that nothing "precludes the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria [Begin's preferred biblical names for the West Bank] and Gaza." Camp David addresses the issue indirectly by incorporating United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 "in all its parts." Unanimously adopted after the Six-Day War of 1967, it refers to "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war," and calls for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied" and the right of all nations in the region to "secure...