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...volatile issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be played down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number...
...Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have denounced 'the Camp David accords as a sellout; Jordan's King Hussein has resisted all efforts to bring him into the peace process. In a recent secret meeting with a leading Israeli official, TIME has learned, Hussein again refused to join the negotiations. He complained that the Israelis had not left him any options that would make it possible for him to participate. Offering to give "all the guarantees you need that the West Bank will never become a Palestine Liberation Organization state," the King pleaded with the Israelis...
Nonetheless, Washington is continuing its efforts to bring in both the Palestinians and Hussein. Ambassador-at-Large Alfred Atherton last week explained the Camp David proposals to a select group of West Bank and Gaza leaders; meanwhile, State Department officials drew up responses to a list of two dozen questions posed by Hussein about the agreements. The King was particularly concerned about the future of predominantly Arab east Jerusalem, whether Jewish settlers would participate in the self-governing authority for the West Bank, and the issue of who would exercise sovereignty over the area after the transition period ends...
Carter specifically invited Jordan and Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza to join the peace process...
...shouldn't be at all. Not at all. Not at all. The serious issue now between Egypt and Israel is the settlements in northern Sinai. Those settlements were established by the previous government as a buffer zone so that the Gaza Strip has its peace and we have our peace. But for President Sadat it is an issue in which he says, "I can't." So now a decision will have to be taken by the Knesset. We have to obey parliament...