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...past." But even if Shamir's diplomatic experience makes him easier to deal with than the irascible Begin, U.S. officials do not expect him to be more flexible than his predecessors on the main area of dispute with the U.S.: the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the home of some 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs. Shamir, said a Western diplomat, is "essentially more of the same without the authority or charisma...
...future of the Reagan peace plan, which would link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Why don't the Americans support self-determination for the Palestinians? Last year they backed self-determination for 2,000 people on the Falkland Islands. So why do they refuse the same principle for 5 million Palestinians...
...when Arafat talked at length with Jordan's King Hussein about the possibility that Hussein would, in association with the Palestinians, enter into negotiations with Israel and the U.S. on President Reagan's proposal for a confederal relationship between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Assad bitterly opposed the U.S. initiative. His objections: it did not envision a significant negotiating role for the Syrians, nor did it address itself to the problem of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and annexed...
...positive result of Israel's costly war in Lebanon. His reasoning presumably is that any step toward further radicalization of the P.L.O. would prevent the U.S. from giving tacit support to P.L.O. moderates and make more difficult the kind of negotiated settlement on the West Bank and Gaza that Israel opposes...
...Arafat faced a serious challenge to his leadership. The rebels were upset over Arafat's recent tendencies toward moderation, notably his series of discussions with Jordan's King Hussein on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which called for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to be linked to Jordan. Left-wing elements within Fatah oppose any settlement that would give the Palestinians less than a wholly sovereign and independent state, however unrealistic that goal may be. They in effect vetoed Arafat's attempts to reach an agreement with Hussein that would have...