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...Does this mean you will accept a West Bank-Gaza state if it is offered...
...diplomatic pressure on the battered Palestine Liberation Organization. In what Arab sources interpreted as a bitter concession, the Palestinians last week accepted a "half-a-loaf" settlement they had consistently refused when the U.N. General Assembly voted 90 to 16 in favor of establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Previously, the Palestinians had always vowed that they would accept nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a state...
...would like to assure Mr. Zvi al Peleg, former occupation commander of Nablus and the Gaza Strip [April 5], that few people, least of all Palestinian Arabs have any illusions about Israel's being "the wisest and best conqueror in history...
...said the late Abdul Aziz Zuabi, Israel's onetime Deputy Minister of Health, in summing up the identity crisis that faces the largest minority living in the Jewish state. The one million Arabs of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who suddenly found themselves under Israeli rule after the Six-Day War have no question about their identity; they are Palestinians. But for the Arabs living within Israel's pre-1967 borders as Israeli citizens?a community that has grown from 150,000 in 1948 to nearly half a million today?there has been a continual tug of loyalties...
...frustrations bred by a sense of inequality remained dormant within the Arab community until Israel's 1967 military victory, which brought the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under Jerusalem's rule. The 19-year isolation of Israel's Arabs from the rest of the Middle East suddenly ended. Israeli Arabs were shocked to find that they spoke, dressed and reacted differently than did their Palestinian cousins in the occupied territories. They encountered militant, anti-Israeli West Bankers, who denounced them for being more Israeli than Arab. At the same time, the Israeli Jew looked upon his Arab fellow citizen...