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...Gurion Airport as they were moving to their new posts-prompted a flurry of symbolic protests. These ranged from scattered demonstrations and Israeli flag burnings in Cairo to noontime traffic stoppages in Syria and general strikes among the Muslim populations of Beirut, the West Bank and Gaza. Even such moderate Arab states as the Sudan and Saudi Arabia expressed their displeasure, while spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization blasted Sadat and the Camp David agreement that led to the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Warm Welcomes | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...urged moderation in Israeli policies for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying, "The Israelis shouldn't become conquerers." Most Israelis desire peace, even with concessions to Palestinians, he added

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panelists Debate Palestinians' Role In Mideast Peace | 3/7/1980 | See Source »

Though they opened their own embassy in Tel Aviv later in the week, the Egyptians could hardly have been less enthusiastic. Said one Cairo official who did not attend the ceremony: "We're not ready to celebrate anything right now, with the situation as it is in Gaza and the West Bank." Translation: Egypt is unhappy with the lack of progress to date in the nine-month-old Palestinian autonomy talks and does not wish to make other Arab nations any angrier over the Egyptian-Israeli peace than they are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's House | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Egypt, specifically, is upset about the Israeli Cabinet's decision to grant Jews the right to settle in the heart of the West Bank Arab town of Hebron. Thus far, most of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have been located in rural areas or on the outskirts of Arab population centers; the Hebron decision understandably inflamed the Palestinian Arabs. Referring to Israel's settlements policy, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that he was "sad but optimistic" and expressed the hope that the Israeli government would "drop all these difficulties they are putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel's House | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...wisdom of the government's high-production policy at a time when 1) the country needs to produce only 6 million bbl. per day to maintain current budgets and 2) the U.S. has been unable to secure autonomy for the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and return the Muslim shrines in the Old City of Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Change in a Feudal Land | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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