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...circumstances. A few days later, as representatives of the 21 member nations of the Arab League gathered in Cairo, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, insisted that his country will back every effort to set up a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The Arab states, he said, will push for a United Nations resolution-which almost certainly will pass-condemning Israel's "expansionist" policy of creating new Jewish settlements on the West Bank. The hardening stance on both sides does not bode well for President Carter's talks later this...
...first high-level meeting in six months. Chief topic on the agenda: the Palestinians. Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...
Last week the Premier added to his reputation for springing surprises. First, his government announced that it would extend to Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza the welfare benefits and child labor laws that cover Israeli citizens. It could certainly be argued that Jerusalem's aims were humanitarian rather than political, as the government stoutly insisted. But the move also looked very much like a deliberate extension of Israeli authority over territories that Begin not only considers to be part of Israel, but insists on calling by their biblical names, Judea and Samaria...
...them, for the most part, by Soviet diplomats-the so-called Palestinian "rejectionists" have decided to end their defiant stand against peace on any terms with Israel and agree with the larger Palestine Liberation Organization on the goal of securing an independent state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The agreement on a limited but attainable Palestine clears the way for the establishment of such a state-whenever the disputed territories can be wrested or negotiated back from Israel...
...Cairo last March, the Palestine National Council, composed of leaders of organizations representing 3.2 million Palestinians scattered around the world, voted to establish an independent state on whatever portions of the "national soil" could be liberated from Israel-meaning, essentially, the West Bank and Gaza. Then only the rejectionists continued to hold out for a war to the end with the Israelis. Acknowledging a radical change from that position last week, one of the rejectionists explained: "We feel this is the time for the Palestinians to stand together...