Word: palestinians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...political vacuum caused by the illness of Premier Menachem Begin, who is still recuperating from a mild stroke. But he saved the best part of his fire for the U.S., warning it against recognzing the P.L.O. or in any other way strengthening the chances of a wholly independent Palestinian state's develop ing in the West Bank and Gaza...
...Israelis want no part of a new resolution that might also acknowledge the Palestinians' right to a sovereign state. The threat may have been precipitated in part by Israel's domestic political uncertainties, but there was no mistaking its seriousness: to withdraw from the stalled negotiations for "autonomy" of the occupied West Bank and Gaza if the U.S. presses too hard for a rapprochement with the P.L.O. that set off the Israelis this time seemed to be an intricate power play orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the P.L.O. The shape of this three-pronged diplomatic maneuver launched...
Israeli fears of political pressure were heightened by clear signals in recent weeks that the P.L.O. might be prepared to embrace Resolution 242 and accept Israel's right to exist in exchange for Palestinian self-determination and national independence. Mindful of Israeli sensitivities, U.S. officials flatly ruled out voting for any draft that endorsed an independent Palestinian state, but they have not dismissed the idea of approving a milder resolution that would affirm the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. Such phraseology would merely align the language of 242 with the Camp David accords, and Carter Administration officials doubted that...
...carrot-and-stick diplomatic approach caught the Carter Administration off guard. The President's ambassador-at-large in the Middle East Robert Strauss, mistakenly reported last month that the Saudis were downplaying any possible link between their gift of increased oil production and diplomatic progress on the Palestinian issue. During his appointed trip to Strauss Riyadh, felt in that fact, the the newly Fahd was deliberately distinguishing between the two issues by introducing them separately and without any reference to "linkage." A U.S. expert concluded later: "It was classic Bedouin hospitality to avoid controversial subjects during a get-acquainted...
...case, the Israelis, led by Interior Minister Yosef Burg, were in a defiant mood when the autonomy negotiations resumed last week in a hotel atop Mount Carmel overlooking Haifa harbor. After Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil announced that Egypt would support a U.N. resolution dealing with Palestinian rights, one of the Israeli delegates, Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, charged in a volley of diplomatic overkill that Egypt was "endangering the whole current peace process." The Egyptians insisted that they wanted the new resolution as means of bringing the Palestinians into negotiations. If the autonomy talks fail, they contended, a U.N. resolution endorsing...