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Israel is also a military occupier. Since 1967, when the Jewish state won a defensive war, its army has administered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where nearly 1.8 million Palestinian Arabs live. Because Israel has not annexed the territories (neither Israelis nor the Palestinians want that) Israeli law does not apply there. That means no democracy. That means no guarantees of fundamental Western freedoms. That means occasional human rights abuses, especially during the intifada, when rock-throwing Palestinians have often clashed with Israeli troops...
...Arab guerrillas -- in the 24 hours prior to Baker's arrival in Jerusalem. Israeli legislators asserted that the government plans to build as many as 11,000 new apartments for Jewish settlers in occupied territories, continuing what looks like a de facto annexation of the West Bank and Gaza. And in Damascus, Baker and his hosts confirmed a sign of a new arms race: Syria had just received from North Korea a shipment of 24 Soviet-built Scud-C missiles, which have bigger warheads and are more accurate than Iraq's Scud...
...biggest problem is that Israel shows no sign of yielding an inch of the West Bank, Gaza or the Golan Heights. The crippling of Israel's most formidable foe, Iraq, does not seem to have enhanced Jerusalem's sense of security; Israelis are still worried about turning over any territory to the Palestinians, who loudly cheered Saddam Hussein's Scud attacks on Tel Aviv. A new poll shows the public split right down the middle on the idea of trading land for peace: 49% for, 49% against. And no government is in sight that would even try to break...
...Palestine's prime foreign business would be to engage Israel in immediate, direct negotiations to determine how best to incorporate the West Bank and Gaza into the new state and to define the rights of Palestinians so that they could live freely where they are now, as new citizens of New Palestine with voting rights in Amman. With support and oversight from the U.S. and the Soviet Union, talks would be hard for Israel to refuse...
...represents the Palestinians would have been settled for the first time in 23 years. The negotiators would decide how to ensure Israel's security, withdraw the army of occupation, provide free access to Jerusalem's holy places and define how 1.7 million Arabs could share their West Bank and Gaza homeland with 210,000 Israeli Jews who also live in the territories...