Word: gaza
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...anxious to remove the embargo dispute before Begin arrives in Washington on Sept. 9 for his first visit with President Reagan. The intent is to focus those meetings on the prospects for a resumption of the long-stalled Israeli-Egyptian negotiations on Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. The autonomy issue is also expected to be the main topic of discussion at this week's summit, the eleventh between Begin and Sadat, in Alexandria. Since they last met in early June in the Sinai, Sadat has abruptly changed his attitude toward the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...anxious to get the autonomy talks revived and settle final arrangements for Israel's complete withdrawal from the Sinai next April. Sadat predicts that he and Begin will be able to sign an interim autonomy agreement. Jerusalem needs a political solution for the occupied West Bank and Gaza, one that will lessen the onus of running a purely military administration in the occupied territories. The need may bring Israel back to its initial position in the Camp David peace process. That stance, as reiterated by a Begin aide last week, was simple. "Look," he said, "everything is negotiable...
Fahd stated that Israel could "live in peace" with its Arab neighbors provided it permitted the Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to form an independent state. That condition alone made the proposal unacceptable to the Israeli government, but U.S. and European officials said that they hoped the Fahd initiative might be a first tentative step toward working out some solution to the dangerous impasse in the Middle East...
...other occupied areas; 3) guarantees of freedom of worship for all religious groups within these areas; 4) recognition of the rights of 2 million Palestinian refugees - from the 1948 war as well as the 1967 war - for repatriation or compensation; 5) U.N. trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a transition period of several months; and 6) establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with the Arab eastern section of Jerusalem as its capital. Such an agreement, Fahd continued, should be guaranteed by the U.N. or by some of its members, presumably meaning...
...P.L.O. Last week Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, said that the time had come for "some form of dialogue." Such a step, he said, would "encourage the P.L.O. to be more moderate and lead to its involvement in resolving the West Bank and Gaza Strip issues." Washing ton's standing policy for years has been that it will not deal with the P.L.O. until that organization recognizes Israel's right to exist...