Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist as a state. Strauss basically concurred, but added that the U.S. favors "a reaffirming and a building on" of 242 with a new draft that could cite 242 and include the Camp David language recognizing the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." He told the Premier that the U.S. "might go forward with a resolution of its own in the U.N." along these lines...
Looming over the Strauss Middle East trip was the debate that it is scheduled to begin this week in the Security Council. Expected to be placed on the agenda is a motion that could modify 242 to recognize the Palestinians' right to their own state. While the U.S. is prepared to honor its promise to Israel and veto such a motion, Washington wants the kind of compromise resolution that Strauss outlined to Begin. In theory this might prompt P.L.O. acceptance of 242 and remove the main obstacle to open U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, thus leading to Palestinian participation...
...have language that would satisfy Palestinian aspirations as well as allow the U.S. to establish relations with the P.L.O...
...saying directly that oil will be withheld from the U.S. and perhaps other countries if there is a failure to establish a Palestinian state...
...exactly. Otherwise I'd be a very stupid man. Just remember that any complication for the Palestinian cause means a complication for the Middle East crisis, and also complications that the American computer itself might be unable to predict, including Soviet complications. Is all that risk in your interest just to keep on spoiling your naughty baby Israel...