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...Testament boundaries. They see the need for compromise, after so many trying years attempting to increase national boundaries towards the Biblical ones. Many believe Israel shouldn't be expending its energy or damaging its image abroad by trying to defend such perimeter territories as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
Most recently, the prime minister's outright rejection of President Reagan's Mideast initiative exasperated the increasing number of moderate Israelis who want to make compromises for peace. That plan includes full autonomy for the Palestinians and would prohibit future Israeli settlements in the contested West Bank and Gaza Strip, so Begin perceived it as a rejection of his own well-laid plans. Certainly the Reagan proposal has features that may territorially slight Israel. But Begin's swift rejection of the plan wholesale led some Israelis to criticize his "hard-headedness" as detrimental...
...Liberation Organization left Beirut, the President looked far beyond Lebanon to call for "a fresh start" on ministering to the most serious of all the Middle East's festering sores: the status of the Palestinian people, especially the 1.3 million living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Reagan dropped the former U.S. role of anxious and often baffled mediator to outline an American plan for progress toward a settlement, setting out some firm U.S. guidelines while leaving the Arabs and Israelis plenty of room for their own negotiations. Its essence: Palestinian self-government "in association" (presumably...
...with Kissinger leading the discussion. As the P.L.O. continues to be evacuated from Lebanon (see WORLD), Shultz is concentrating on broader Middle East issues. The U.S. hopes to restart the suspended talks be tween Egypt and Israel on the question of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. To do this, Washington is considering issuing its own definition of autonomy, which is expected to be closer to Cairo's concept of Palestinian self-rule than Jerusalem's. Says one top presidential aide...
Israel's invasion of Lebanon has evoked fears that Israeli troops have come to stay, just as they did in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel has occupied since 1967. The Lebanese note that although Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared shortly after the invasion of Lebanon last June that Israel did not want any Lebanese territory, Jerusalem has insisted that a 25-mile-wide strip inside the Lebanese border be subject to international guarantees under a multinational force. To complicate matters, the Israelis have said that they will not leave until the estimated 30,000 Syrian...