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...consulting Egypt were doomed to failure (Egypt was suspended from Arab League deliberations in March 1979, after signing the Camp David accords). In Jerusalem, Israelis speculated that the position of P.L.O. Leader Arafat had been undermined. But among the 1.3 million Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, the reaction was bitter disappointment. Said Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij, a moderate P.L.O. supporter: "The Arabs are behaving like children. If you had a plebiscite here, morethan 90% would vote yes for the Fahd plan...
...weaken Palestinian artillery positions. Some feared an attack could come this week as Arab leaders gather for a summit meeting in Fez, Morocco. The most likely item on their agenda: Saudi Arabia's eight-point peace plan, which calls for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, while implicitly recognizing Israel by upholding the "right of the countries of the region to live in peace." An Israeli move into southern Lebanon would almost certainly scuttle the Saudi peace plan and eliminate any further peace overtures from moderate Arab states. That, in turn, would greatly increase...
...sense of urgency was heightened by an apparent deadlock between Egypt and Israel over Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. Just two weeks ago, both sides spoke hopefully of a "breakthrough," but that optimism has all but vanished. "There are dramatic differences just in the concept of the self-governing authority," said a Western diplomat in Cairo about the talks. After 30 months, the two sides have agreed only on how to conduct elections for members of a proposed autonomy council...
...Israel's withdrawal from all Arab territories that it occupied after the 1967 war. This territory includes the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and, most important, the West Bank of the Jordan River and East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as their own. The Israelis have said that they would give up some of the land if they could be assured defensible borders, but they are adamant about retaining all of Jerusalem. The hard-line Palestinians claim that they would not relinquish a square inch to the Israelis. But there is room for discussion on this point...
...United Nations supervision of the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a transitional period. The Palestinians favor this principle. The Israelis would agree to a transition period, but not under the U.N. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government feels that the U.N. would be controlled by an anti-Israeli bloc...