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...optimism. At the close of a two-day meeting at the Mena House Hotel, near the Giza pyramids, they announced a schedule for continuing discussions concerning that most difficult of unresolved questions, the nature of the "full autonomy" promised the Palestinian Arabs of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip under the Camp David accords. The plan is for diplomats of the three countries to meet for a total of 35 days stretched over five sessions between Oct. 21 and Jan. 15. The aim: to reach an agreement between Egypt and Israel, preferably before next April...
Trying to win the support of the Palestinians for an eventual compromise agreement, the Israeli government last week announced an important new policy for the occupied territories. The Israeli plan, as advanced by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, is to bring civilian rule to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs have lived under military jurisdiction since the Six-Day War of 1967. The short-term Israeli goal was plain enough: to create the political and social conditions under which a system of limited autonomy could conceivably be successful. The long-range goal was more significant...
Despite these signs of colonization, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin realizes that an Israel encompassing the West Bank and Gaza Strip would scarcely remain a Jewish state: 2 million of its 5 million inhabitants would be Arabs. In two more decades, according to current growth rates, the number of Arabs will have grown to 4 million and virtually closed the gap with the Jewish population. The result would be a "Palestinization" of Israel, as Opposition Leader Shimon Peres put it during this year's election campaign. What the Israelis would prefer is a sort of common...
...central, player in our strategic planning for the Middle East, and, accordingly, full military and economic assistance is a high priority. This does not preclude the Administration from pressing for rapid establishment of a self-governing authority on the West Bank and in Gaza by aiding and assisting the parties to the autonomy talks; nor does it preclude criticism of Israel as to new settlements...
...their talks, Reagan and Haig apparently won no concessions from the Israelis, even though they pressed Begin to seek progress in reaching an agreement with Egypt on autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. Haig suggested a deadline of next April 25 for completion of the autonomy talks, which are to resume later this month in Cairo. By April, if all goes well, Egypt will have got back all of the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Some U.S. officials fear that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may lose interest...