Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arab efforts to push a Palestinian solution make Israel edgy...
Even in the euphoria following the historic Camp David agreements last September, everyone knew the hard part was yet to come. While Egyptian-Israeli relations began a new era, the central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel...
...indication of Washington's renewed interest in the P.L.O. came early last week, when a debate in the United Nations Security Council on Palestinian rights was abruptly postponed, at the U.S.'s request, until Aug. 23. For one thing, the Administration did not want that debate to be clouded by its current squabble with the Israelis over their opposition to a U.S. plan to replace the 4,000-man armed U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai with a much smaller number of unarmed truce observers. More important, Washington wanted to buy time for private bargaining over the diplomatic...
...hunt and destroy" raids that the Israelis have launched into southern Lebanon since April. The P.L.O. is also disturbed by the degree to which Arab allies like Syria and Iraq have been preoccupied with their own problems. Moreover, Arafat is thought to have been persuaded that continued Palestinian violence only reinforces Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's contention that the P.L.O. is just a gang of "terrorists" that "no decent government" should talk...
...Administration knows full well that Saudi Arabia's decision in July to ease the Western oil squeeze by increasing its production by a million barrels a day for a period of three months was not just gratuitous generosity. It was also aimed at spurring U.S. action on the Palestinian question. In fact, TIME has learned that Saudi Crown Prince Fahd himself has played a key role in coaxing Arafat toward moderation. When Fahd got Arafat's consent, he gave the O.K. for increased oil production. Acutely aware that taps can be as easily turned...