Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Israel's Menachem Begin was diigging in deeper on the West Bank issue, off in Beirut his Palestinian foes last week took a big if unheralded step toward peace. TIME has learned that after extensive negotiations-urged on 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...
...Palestinian issue that shows most clearly how the Carter Administration is moving more toward Arab than Israeli views, increasing the likelihood of a U.S.-Israeli clash despite the artificial joviality surrounding Begin's recent U.S. visit. The U.S. now accepts the Arab argument-with softer qualifications than before-that Palestinians should be included in negotiations. Moreover, Washington is searching for some way to open a dialogue between the U.S. and Yasser Arafat's P.L.O.-if the Palestinians are willing to accept the terms of an American push for peace...
...Israelis are nervous about this. In the course of two days of discussions with Vance in Jerusalem, Begin repeatedly took up the Palestinian issue, which seemed to bring out all his emotional righteousness. At one meeting he harangued Vance with passages from the P.L.O.'s 1968 charter, which declares the Balfour Declaration and the partitioning of Palestine to be "null and void." "Imagine," remarked Begin sarcastically, "the State of Israel is deemed null and void...
...Jimmy Carter, since his call in Clinton, Mass., last March for a Palestinian homeland, has been overriding that commitment with subtle but unmistakable overtures to the Palestinians. Responding to the President's initiative, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd recently got Arafat to send Carter a message pledging Palestinian moderation; Fahd himself delivered it during his White House visit in May. Carter has continued the indirect dialogue: in an interview with TIME earlier this month, he reiterated his position urging the P.L.O. to accept the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for recognition of Israel...
Just before Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem last week, Israel's Premier Menachem Begin caused a stir with a public admission: Israeli artillery regularly fires into south Lebanon to shoo away Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese Christian enclaves in the border area. In fact, during a recent seven-day period, Israeli batteries-sometimes directed by observers in spotter planes-fired 16 times at Palestinian forces near the seven Christian villages in the border area; during the same week, the Israelis manned two observation posts in Lebanese territory and sent in seven patrols-one of which got into a firefight with...