Word: gaza
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...White House. Begin will not only argue against the AWACS deal but will also urge Reagan to throw the prestige of the U.S. into fulfillment of the Camp David accords by sending a high-level envoy to the talks on autonomy for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which are scheduled to resume later this month. Secretary Haig, who wants to find a way to get the Palestinians involved in the talks, will decide on how the U.S. will be represented after the Begin visit...
...Alexandria did serve to reduce the tensions that had been building over the past three months. And it produced one accomplishment: a commitment by the two men to resume the long-stalled talks on autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, scheduled for next April, wants to give Jerusalem no excuses for delaying the turnover. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a member of the ministerial committee on autonomy, arrived with suggestions to demilitarize, to some degree, the Israeli administration of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sharon champions the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, but he recognized the need for a conciliatory gesture to the Egyptians last week...
...President Anwar Sadat, it was Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy of the previous 16 months, during which demonstrating Arab...
That such changes should be initiated by Sharon stunned many Israelis. He was, after all, a tireless, ofttimes abrasive advocate of Jewish settlement in Arab territory and a ruthless fighter against terrorism in the Gaza Strip between 1970 and 1972. Born in what was then the British mandate of Palestine, Sharon has been a hard-line Zionist all his life. At 14, he signed on with GADNA, then an underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped...