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...policy to Anthony Lewis of the New York Times. Hussein was particularly angry with the U.S. for refusing to do more than rebuke Israel for its bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor last month, and for tolerating the Begin government's policy on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Declared Hussein: "Israel is the U.S., and the U.S. is Israel. That is the reality." The Israelis operate under "your American protection, your armaments, your material resources," said Hussein. "How do you expect us to be tolerant?" A State Department official agreed that Hussein's views reflected those...
...negotiator, perhaps Philip Habib, whose job will be to get the stalled Camp David peace process moving again. The Arabs are convinced that the U.S. will be obliged to pressure the Israelis if there is ever to be a solution for the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...radically rightist Tehiya Party is made up of former Begin backers who broke away when Begin agreed to the Camp David accords, which included withdrawal from the Sinai and talks about granting autonomy to the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tehiya, which will hold two or three seats, is led by Yuval Ne'eman, a world-renowned physicist who once was the head of military science for the army and the president of Tel Aviv University...
...parties' philosophies clash most sharply in their vision of what Israel is and what the place of the occupied territories should be in Israel's future. At the heart of the issue are the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tellingly, most Israelis refer to the West Bank by the biblical regional names that Begin made fashionable: Judea and Samaria. Begin, in fact, would like to add them to the permanent map of the country, as part of the state of Israel. According to its official policy, the Likud would offer "full autonomy" to the Arab population. The hyperbolic...
...seven-year absence, rejoined the governing executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization at its meeting in Damascus. TIME also learned that Habash, who had previously insisted that all of Israel must revert to a Palestinian state, would now accept "a Palestine" on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-at least "as a first step." The shift in strategy has not been announced by Habash. It is a quiet arrangement worked out within the P.F.L.P., after a great deal of argument, and later with Arafat...