Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan's King Hussein, due April 8 on a formal visit designed to put forth the Arab views. Hussein's visit is the latest round in the diplomatic minuet over the Middle East that brought Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban to Washington in mid-March to outline Israel's position, and had Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin shuttling back and forth almost daily last week between his embassy and the State Department...
...talking points" began to appear. Perhaps the most important of the points would be an effort to win full four-power agreement on the implementation of the November 1967 Security Council resolution, which postulated mutual recognition of sovereignty and Israeli withdrawal from areas conquered in the Six-Day War. Israel, according to the latest U.S. suggestion, would retain Syria's Gobn Heights and Arab Jerusalem, although Jordan would have certain rights in its former sector. The U.S. also envisages the following...
...Neither Israel nor the Arabs could be expected to accept such proposals completely. Israel, moreover, maintains that any settlement can come about only as the result of face-to-face agreement with Arab negotiators. On this point, the Arabs are reluctant, partly because such formal talks would imply full Arab recognition of Israel...
...with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank as a result of the 1967 war be allowed to return...
...talks broke down, however, over Jerusalem. Hussein offered Israel some rights in the Jordanian part of the city-including access to the Wailing Wall-and talked of internationalization of the city as a possible alternative. Israel, of course, has formally annexed Arab Jerusalem and does not want to relinquish its hold. In any further Arab-Israeli negotiations, it seemed increasingly obvious that Jerusalem may prove the major sticking point...