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...problems to the fore. The U.S. will then have to work out some formula for an Israeli withdrawal from a neutralized Lebanon. The goal, after that, will be to revive the long-stalled negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. diplomacy has a chance not only to re-create an independent and neutral Lebanon but move toward a general Middle East peace based on settlement of the longest-festering problem of all: the aspirations of the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In his view, an Israel freed of fears about P.L.O. terrorism would be more willing to grant real autonomy to the Palestinians; the moderate Palestinians, no longer afraid of P.L.O. reprisals, would be more willing to enter the autonomy talks with Israel. Once more last week, Haig argued that...
...enemy. As Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor emphatically put it last week, "Israel will not negotiate ever with the organization calling itself the Organization to Liberate Palestine from the Jews-ever." Israeli strategy currently focuses on dealing with the more moderate Palestinian elements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. That is the aim of Begin's limited autonomy policy, which could conceivably be nudged toward a broader form of political self-expression for local Arabs but could never embrace the idea of a Palestinian state-militant or otherwise. "The next public debate in Israel," said former Israeli...
...harshest critics of the U.S. policy that was evolving last week. Said he: "The Administration is indulging in an act of self-deception to think that the invasion will improve chances for a negotiated solution to the Palestinian problem in the occupied areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All this has done is to make real negotiations impossible because it strengthens the hands of the most radical elements. What it has done is make martyrs out of the P.L.O. It certainly doesn't mean an end to P.L.O. activity...
...peace process under the Camp David framework. Both he and President Mubarak have pledged their countries' commitment to that framework, and we are prepared to work closely with them. Camp David is clear on the future of autonomy [for the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza], and we will proceed based on that understanding. As for the location of the talks, we're working on that now. But they will be resumed. I have no doubt of that...