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Along with other relatively moderate leaders of the P.L.O., Arafat leans toward an interim settlement that would establish a mini-Palestine out of Gaza, the Hemmeh region beside the Sea of Galilee, and the West Bank, formerly part of Jordan, where 700,000 Palestinians live fairly peacefully under Israeli occupation. But fedayeen extremists demanded that such a government be a "fighting authority" and that establishing a mini-Palestine be considered only the first step toward recovery of all of old Palestine. As a result, Arafat apparently shifted Fatah to the attack at Nahariya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Again, the Palestinians | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...Zuhair Mohsen Nayef Hawatmeh, whose Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was re sponsible for the Ma'alot massacre (TIME, May 27), prefer to take what they can get and establish an autonomous mini-Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza strip and the Hemmeh region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sustaining the Momentum of Peace | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...Arafat. Up till now, his organization has been split. Some fedayeen organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state for Arabs and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Miracle Worker Does It Again | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Arab world. In Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, they dominate the civil service, diplomatic corps and educational system. Of the 3.2 million Palestinians, approximately 1.5 million live in Jordan (including the West Bank). Another 400,000 live in Israel, 350,000 in the Gaza Strip, 300,000 in Lebanon, 160,000 in Syria, 50,000 in Iraq, at least 80,000 in Kuwait, and large numbers in Persian Gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Bullets, Bombs and a Sign of Hope | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...does Syria view the talk of a compromise that would set up an autonomous, demilitarized Palestinian homeland confined to the West Bank and Gaza? " There are several ideas around. That is one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Assad: I Am Not Pessimistic | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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