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...vast gap between the contending positions will become evident as soon as the Israelis and Palestinians begin to haggle. While the Palestinians see autonomy, a modified form of self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as the starting point for an eventual independent state, Shamir sees it as the most Israel will ever concede. Somehow, someone someday will have to devise an ingenious bridge to bring these two profound enemies any closer. But for the first time, at least, all the inimical parties in the Middle East have said they are ready...
...Israel. These negotiations -- which also include the Gulf Cooperation Council, representing states such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that have no territorial controversies with Israel -- are to run concurrently with the bilateral talks between Israel and its adversaries on such matters as disputed territory, including the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The idea is to convince both sides that neither is a demon and that however envenomed the territorial disputes become, they can still reach accommodation on other issues. Israelis, or so goes the reasoning, especially need to be convinced that the Arab world is ready...
...full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that the U.S. would not grant the Israelis any loan guarantees unless Jerusalem agreed to freeze settlement in the occupied West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip...
...showdown is really about the Shamir administration's policy of rapidly and provocatively expanding Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. This policy directly compromises both the atmosphere of a possible peace conference and the geographic possibility of trading land for peace...
...tacit endorsement of Jerusalem's policy of building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Quite the contrary, Shamir fears that if he capitulates to Bush and freezes construction of the Jewish settlements, the move might signal that a question mark hangs over the future of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem -- and as a result, his government might fall...