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...Israelis argue that security requires them to supervise the West Bank militarily, while history grants them the right to settle there. They contend that if an independent Palestinian state were created in the West Bank (and in the Gaza Strip along the Mediterranean), it would quickly be taken over by the Palestine Liberation Organization and used as a launching pad for terrorist attacks on Israel. For that reason, last December Premier Menachem Begin put forward a 26-point proposal for the occupied territories that would give limited self-rule to the Arabs on domestic matters. Israeli authorities, however, would still...
...discussion between Sadat and Weizman, the Egyptian government announced that the Israelis had offered no new proposals and that there would be no more formal meetings of the political or military committees until Jerusalem had changed its position, notably on the future status of the West Bank and Gaza. Nonetheless, the Weizman visit was likely to be the first of a series of informal talks aimed at getting the full-scale negotiations moving again...
...sides that the Palestinians should be allowed to participate in determining their own future, and that the Palestinian problem must be solved "in all its aspects." Begin has budged slightly from his previous position, but still wants to restrict Palestinian participation to those living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sadat insists on including those in the diaspora; otherwise, he argues, the problem cannot be solved "in all its aspects." The Aswan summit language, say the Egyptians, is the "fig leaf that Sadat must have if he hopes to make bilateral negotiations respectable in the eyes of his doubting fellow...
...seem hopelessly wrongheaded and self-destructive. After all, a return to terrorism by the P.L.O. tends to undermine Sadat, even though he has maintained steadfastly that he would make no deal with the Israelis without a provision for some sort of Palestinian homeland on the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians simply do not believe him, apparently, and their present view is born of a rising desperation. "They are running out of space," reports Correspondent Brelis. "Having been expelled from Jordan by King Hussein in the early 1970s, they find themselves no longer welcome in Lebanon. Having been battered...
Strictly speaking, Palestinians are Arabs who live or have lived in the area now consisting of Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all of which was once called Palestine, after the Philistines who lived there (along with the Jews) in biblical times. The largest number of modern Palestinians still remain in that territory: 693,000 in the West Bank, 447,000 in Gaza and 574,000 more in Israel proper, where they have become citizens of the Jewish state and a long-range worry to Israeli authorities because their birth rate is much higher than that...