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...fedayeen draw their main strength from the 1.3 million Palestinian refugees, and have the political power to endanger any peace agreement that does not include an offer that the refugees would consider, finally, just. The Palestinians are among the bitterest people in the world, and with reason. In the wake of the 1948 war, they scattered throughout the Arab lands. Educated, intelligent, some of them staff the ranks of governments and the faculties of Arab universities. But the majority were herded into squalid camps, fed by the United Nations on 7¢ a day and used as pawns by Arab politicians...
Israel's negotiating position, understandably, is a full 180° from that of the Arabs, while the U.S. and the Soviet Union have staked out bargaining bases between the two. The diverse views are causing complications on four main issues...
...Dayan, aims at the creation of "new facts" through occupation and the passage of time. This means forcing the Arabs, by pressure of occupation, to change their attitudes?a highly unlikely prospect. To many Israelis, "new facts" would include the fall of Nasser, whom they consider to be the main stumbling block to peace...
...Israel agrees on two main points, this will solve the problem. The points are land-withdrawal from all occupied territory-and people-the Palestinians must have the choice of returning to their homes...
County Kerry might seem like an odd place for the ex-President of France to take a holiday. However, the world's most quintessential Frenchman is partly Irish: his maternal grandmother was born in County Down, Ulster (then a part of Ireland). The main purpose of his trip is not sentimental, though. With the sort of disdainful gesture that is so specially his, De Gaulle has decided to absent himself from France during the election campaign and the voting on June 1 to pick his successor...