Word: gaza
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...understanding" among Egypt, Israel and the U.S. The White House fears that unless the progress achieved so far in the negotiations is closely defined in writing, momentum for further progress may dry up before the Reagan Administration can resume the initiative. Talks on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip are scheduled to resume in Cairo this week, but only at the nonministerial level...
...There was a good chemical reaction between Sadat and Peres," Eban remarked afterward, adding that "we conducted relations, not negotiations." Peres appeals to the Egyptians because he is seen as being less dogmatic than Begin about Israel's need to control all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, he would bring to the negotiations none of the biblical fervor that fires Begin to claim the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan...
...another summit conference, to be held in the U.S., probably shortly after the presidential election in November. What was more, Linowitz later added, Israel and Egypt had agreed to consider a U.S. plan-the details unrevealed-to break the deadlock over Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...that he might now be willing to back down on this sensitive matter. Linowitz hinted that the Israelis might also be prepared to release some Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Israeli jails and perhaps make some sort of conciliatory gesture toward Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza...
...referring to the actions being taken with respect to Jerusalem and the settlements, together with the repressive measures taken in the West Bank and Gaza...