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...meetings with his right-wing supporters, Shamir emphasized that he had not agreed to sacrifice -- or even discuss -- the status of Jerusalem and that there was no requirement for Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli troops. "Trust me," Shamir told a gathering of Knesset members from the small rightist parties that hold his ruling Likud coalition together. "We won't withdraw one millimeter...
...Arabs have let Shamir arrange the chairs at the conference to suit himself. All sides have accepted the idea that the peace process will move in stages, with the first one intended to provide Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza with local self-government, not an independent state. The Palestine Liberation Organization is ruled out of the talks, and, if Shamir has his way, overt representatives of East Jerusalem will be too. The peace conference will serve only to start bilateral talks and will have no authority to make decisions...
...committed to follow through to a comprehensive settlement. Washington's foundations for the settlement, Bush reiterated, are Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, which call on Israel to trade land it has occupied since 1967 for security guarantees from the Arab states. In the U.S. view, the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem are all negotiable...
...that Shamir will acquiesce and that the regional conference will convene in a few months. That would be a step toward the peace process but nothing close to an overall solution. Once the bilateral negotiations begin, Israel may go along with autonomy for Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza. But Shamir vows to oppose any territorial concessions, offering only what he calls "peace for peace...
...deeper problem is the government's fear that any kind of peace talks will turn into a gang-up by the U.S. and Arab nations to force Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza. Shamir is determined not to yield a square inch. Thus the talk in Jerusalem is less about how to get talks started than how to fend them off. Currently, Israeli officials are longing for the U.S. presidential campaign to start in earnest. Once the campaign is in full swing, they reason, no candidate will risk putting pressure on Israel to yield...