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What is equally obvious is that, whatever the fate of the P.L.O., the problem of the Palestinians will not disappear. It has been present since the founding of Israel in 1948 and has been growing in intensity since Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War of 1967. The Camp David accords promised "autonomy" to the Palestinians, though Begin and Sharon often seem more imbued with the idea of annexation. To many Israelis, the thought of incorporating 1.3 million Arabs is a demographic nightmare for a country whose current population already includes...
...policymakers, for their part, see a new chance to use the leverage that the Beirut crisis has given them to prod both sides toward the solution of a larger Middle East problem: the status of the Palestinians, who yearn for a homeland in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under heavy pressure from Arabs and some Europeans, the U.S. is considering the possibility of negotiating directly with the P.L.O., in return for an open declaration by the P.L.O. that it recognizes Israel's right to exist as a state. The hope: that Prime Minister Menachem Begin might...
...invading Lebanon. Camp David came at a certain period of time. We don't fault it for what it accomplished. But we fault it for what it did not accomplish. It did not accomplish a solution regarding the Palestinian problem, regarding the occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza, the Golan, regarding the territories occupied in June 1967 and the rights of [the Palestinian] people to self-determination. We wish the two principles that were applied in the Falklands crisis had been applied here: the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the right of self-determination...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian population reacted to the invasion of Lebanon with muted anger. Many, including former Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus, seemed convinced that Israel was determined to liquidate the P.L.O. and the Palestinian people as well, and were shocked by the failure of Arab states to come to their aid. The daily newspaper Al-Qudus, published in Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed...
...P.L.O. as an organized military force or to allow it to act as a special state within a state, as it has done in Lebanon. The Palestinian cause will persevere, since the status of more than 4 million Palestinians, including 1.3 million in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, remains unresolved. But the role of the P.L.O. in behalf of that cause has been decisively changed by the events of the past month...