Word: gaza
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...mercurial decisions. He spun full circle last week, confounding friends and enemies alike. With the May 26 target date for an agreement on Palestinian autonomy just around the corner, Sadat abruptly suspended the talks. His reason: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had said that security in the West Bank and Gaza "must remain exclusively in Israel's hands, and nobody else can interfere." But after a telephone talk with his friend Jimmy Carter, Sadat told the People's Assembly in Cairo on Wednesday that negotiations with Israel would resume despite a "formidable gap" dividing the Egyptian and Israeli positions...
...remain undivided as Israel's capital. Sadat interpreted the measure as an Israeli ploy to keep the subject of Jerusalem's future out of the talks, even though the predominantly Arab eastern sector of the city was occupied by the Israelis, along with the West Bank and Gaza, during the 1967 Six-Day War. Declared Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Boutros Ghali: "The fact that Israel passes such a law shows that the will to find a political solution [to the Palestinian problem] does not exist...
...rise above an arbitrator's role and assume a more forceful position in the negotiations. The Egyptians complain that the Americans have not produced specific compromise plans that might lead to eventual agreement on the five core issues: 1) internal and external security for the West Bank and Gaza; 2) control of land, including the status of Jewish settlements; 3) water rights and distribution; 4) the role of East Jerusalem Arabs in an autonomy plan; and 5) the nature of the powers to be held by an autonomous Palestinian council...
...Accadia Hotel in Herzlia and the Israeli delegation on the second floor. But it was not enough. The talks came close to collapse last week over one of five key issues on which Egyptian and Israeli views diverge: security in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.* Egypt has proposed a formula providing for security matters to be shared by the proposed Palestinian council, Israeli authorities and Jordanian patrols. The Israelis insist that they must maintain full military supervision over all security questions...
Otherwise, nothing was settled on the substantive questions. The most important is what authority will be exercised by a self-governing council to be elected by the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza. As Carter noted in his press conference last week, "If we can accomplish that, then the details of exactly how to administer land and water rights and how to administer other specific elements of security, like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow...