Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to give Israel full diplomatic recognition, including provisions for trade and tourism (which the Arabs have always rejected in the past). His Administration, Carter added, will not draw a map setting boundaries. But to banish some of the Jewish fears about his call for a homeland for the Palestinians, he said that such a haven would have to be a part of Jordan; he did not favor a separate Palestinian state, which could be a threat to peace. A settlement, he stressed, cannot be imposed; it must be negotiated. During a time of crisis, however, there would...
When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
Every so often, Palestinian coffers have been replenished with income extracted by terrorism. In December 1975 a group-working with the mysterious superterrorist "Carlos"-invaded an OPEC meeting in Vienna, killed three people and took 81 hostages. The hostages were gradually released in return for a $25 million ransom paid jointly by Saudi Arabia and Iran. The loot was split, $5 million for Carlos and $20 million for the Palestinians. The Palestinians also claim to make $5 million a year operating an illegal drug market inside Israel, using Oriental Jews as pushers...
Since Begin's upset election two months ago, Washington has become increasingly alarmed over his intransigent views. Begin has said that he sees "no condition" under which Israel would withdraw to its 1967 borders, especially from the West Bank, or accept a Palestinian state involving the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. Moshe Dayan, hero of the Six-Day War and now Begin's Foreign Minister, last week flatly rejected what he called "partition" of the West Bank. Begin insists that the West Bank is negotiable, but his Likud political faction has been more amenable to Israeli settlements...
...politics. Rabin, the only ex-general ever to head the government, turned out to be somewhat more moderate than his predecessor Golda Meir. Former Quartermaster General Matityahu Peled, who teaches Arabic studies at Tel Aviv University, is one of the few prominent Israelis who support the idea of a Palestinian state...