Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belatedly recognized that there can be no real cooling down of the Middle East without some progress toward settlement of the Palestinian question. With the April 25 deadline past, he hopes to get Israel and Egypt to intensify negotiations about autonomy for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His lieutenants hardly sound hopeful that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last...
...first won military fame in the 1950s for his swashbuckling leadership of fierce raids against Arab villages and refugee camps in Jordan and Gaza. After the 1973 October War, his soldiers hailed him "Arik, Arik, King of Israel." Former Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman once wrote: "In war, I'd follow him through fire and flood, but political life has different values." Says a ranking general: "His world is divided into black and white, good guys and bad guys. According to his philosophy, 'Whosoever is not with me must be against...
...Sharon surprised everyone with his low profile and relatively moderate statements. He set up a civil administration in the occupied West Bank. It seemed a puzzling policy for a military firebrand whose campaign against terrorism in the early 1970s included bulldozing roads through refugee camps in occupied Gaza and the Sinai. But by last month it was evident that Sharon's civil administration cloaked the toughest policy Israel had ever exercised in the occupied territories...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin has made clear his ultimate intention of annexing the disputed West Bank and Gaza strip. Driven by a belief in his nation's Biblical claim to the territories, Begin ignores those who argue that security will never be achieved unless the Palestinian desires for self-determination endorsed at Camp David become reality. On the other side, the Palestinians' senseless refusal to recognize Israel and substitute diplomacy for terrorism creates an additional obstacle--one buttressed by the obstinance of nations such as Jordan and Syria, themselves responsible for more Palestinian civilian dislocation and carnage than...
...independent Palestinian state, but one that could conceivably win support from Arab moderates. Peres argues that Israel can recruit Egyptian support for limited autonomy under continued Israeli supervision, including new privileges for Arabs living in Jerusalem. With Egyptian backing, Israel would seek Saudi support and a similar settlement in Gaza, then negotiations with Jordan and a possible joint Israeli-Jordanian trusteeship over the West Bank...