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...been tentatively approved, though both the Egyptians and the Israelis had requested some changes. Then, in a bizarre and even provocative gesture, the Israeli government announced that it was launching a $20 million program to "thicken," or beef up, five Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The move was calculated by Begin and his colleagues to warn the Carter Administration that it must behave more circumspectly in its conduct of the peace negotiations, and the message got through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance quickly rebuked the Begin government, saying that the U.S. considered the Israeli...
...Carter Administration fully realized that the whole subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza still clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...group in the Arab world has monitored the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks with more intensity and concern than the 1,139,000 Palestinians who live on the West Bank and in Gaza. That intensity increased last week with word that the Israeli Cabinet intended to "thicken" (augment) the settlements of Israeli nationals in their midst. The news added a further twist to the Palestinian debate over the Camp David accords, which has been almost as tortuous as the negotiation process itself...
...military rule and also guarantee them domestic autonomy. The improvement in the Palestinians' status falls far short of their goal of independence, but some moderate Palestinians believe it would be advantageous to grasp even the tenuous levers of self-government that Israel offers. Says Hatim Abu-Ghazaleh, 42, a Gaza physician: "Our basic national duty is to engage the Israelis in a political dialogue." Adds Abdel Attrif, 61, former mayor of the West Bank village of Ein Yabrud: "Camp David was not that bad. It means an opening for peace, and that is what we on the West Bank really...
...Camp David accords because no agreement was possible; but Saunders assured Hussein that Washington-which maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv-still believes that Israel's jurisdiction over East Jerusalem is illegal. Saunders also said the U.S. anticipates a restoration of Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza following the five-year period of autonomy...