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...optimistic. He concludes after a 1983 visit to the region that the Arab states are as unwilling as ever to "give clear and official recognition" to Israel's right to exist within secure borders, while the Israelis are just as reluctant to withdraw from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and grant self-determination to the Palestinians. He compares the relatively moderate views of many West Bank Palestinians with the overheated and unrealistic rhetoric of some Palestine Liberation Organization officials, who in conversation "rarely mentioned the plight of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza." Adds Carter: "Their...
Reagan has ample reason for caution. The Administration's 1982 Middle East peace plan, which called for Palestinian self-government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan, was peremptorily rejected by Israel and manhandled by indecisive Arab countries. Washington's well-intentioned attempts to make peace in Lebanon led to the deaths of 267 American servicemen and ended in the mortifying withdrawal of U.S. troops early last year. For the past 13 months, U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East has essentially been on hold. The tragedies in Lebanon had resulted in a vague policy known...
...within "the proposed confederated Arab states of Jordan and Palestine." Though the accord does not specifically demand the creation of a separate Palestinian state, it offers little incentive to Israel to enter negotiations. Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights--but do not promise to recognize Israel in return. While the accord vaguely alludes to a "comprehensive peace" based on U.N. resolutions, it does not specifically refer to Security Council Resolution 242, which implicitly acknowledges Israel's right to exist within secure borders...
...Amman, Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, agreed on a "framework for common action" in reaching a settlement with Israel over the fate of some 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Though exact terms of the accord were not released, the U.S. was told through diplomatic channels that it contained at least the implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist...
...nations of the region and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people can and should be addressed in direct negotiation," Reagan told Fahd. He also expressed continued faith in the soundness of his 1982 Middle East peace plan, which calls for Palestinian self-government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan. Fahd's own outline for a Middle East settlement, incorporated the same year into the final declaration of an Arab summit in the Moroccan city of Fez, envisions an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital...