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These are the Palestinians: nearly 4 million Arabs, the majority living in exile, who claim as their birthright both the land of Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The quarrel between the Israelis and Palestinians involves a tragic, seemingly irreconcilable conflict of competing nationalisms. The Jewish claim to most of this same area is also justified by historic and religious roots...
Considering the timing of the announcement, there seemed little question that it was meant as retaliation for the U.S. vote in the United Nations Security Council two weeks ago against Israel's policy of expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Although President Carter later disavowed the vote as a "mistake," Israeli displeasure remained acute...
Both Carter and Vance have repeatedly criticized Israel's policy of expanding its settlements on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As Washington sees it, the new settlements undercut the efforts of Special Middle East Envoy Sol Linowitz to get a meaningful agreement between Egypt and Israel on autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of these occupied areas. When the Israeli Cabinet on Feb. 10 approved in principle the right of Jews to settle even in the Arab-populated West Bank town of Hebron, Carter felt that Israel had gone too far. Both at the White House...
Most provocatively, the text refers seven times to "Jerusalem," six times linking the city with the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Three times in the preamble, and three times in its key operative paragraphs, it uses some variation of the phrase "Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, Washington is concerned about a proposed West European initiative in the Security Council that could lead to a resolution on Palestinian self-determination. Such a move, American policymakers fear, could upset the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza...