Word: gaza
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...they denounced the Saudi plan, the Israelis were sending out encouraging signals about their desire for progress on Camp David's more limited approach to the Palestinian problem: the Israeli-Egyptian talks on autonomy arrangements for the 1.3 million Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Apparently hoping for a definite breakthrough in the sluggish talks, Begin dispatched to Cairo his four most senior Cabinet members, whom he empowered to make decisions on the spot...
There were a few positive developments, notably indications of a renewed Israeli effort to accelerate negotiations with Egypt toward finding some form of autonomy for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. But any hopeful signs were overshadowed by a vituperative Israeli blast against the Administration's friends in Riyadh and by tough talk from the newly outspoken Saudis, who went so far as to suggest bringing the Soviet Union into Middle East diplomacy. Even Reagan's success in forging a warm, personal relationship with Hussein was less cheering than it might...
...focus of much of the trouble was the eight-point plan put forward in August by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. The plan envisions creation of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, with predominantly Arab East Jerusalem as its capital. But the plan also hints at recognition of Israel's right to exist, and that has belatedly aroused Washington's interest...
...August, Crown Prince Fahd announced a peace plan for the Middle East. Among other things, this plan called for a transitional United Nations trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Abdullah acknowledged that Fahd's initiative implicitly recognizes the existence of Israel, a potentially important concession: "The initiative was proposed after the Camp David accords were considered dead or at least dying. Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after, the acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state...
...planning session for next week's ministerial meetings in Cairo, the Israelis proposed that the negotiators concentrate on a single issue: the nature of the self-governing authority for an autonomous West Bank and Gaza Strip. Indeed, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin talked as if an agreement on that issue would lead straight to a solution of even thornier matters, such as the Israeli settlements on the West Bank and the future status of East Jerusalem and its 100,000 Arab residents...