Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the hostility between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israelis, TIME has learned that the P.L.O.'s representatives have been meeting regularly with Nahum Goldmann, 83, who gave up the presidency of the World Jewish Congress in 1977. Goldmann says that his Palestinian contacts are now trying to arrange a meeting with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat...
...Jimmy Carter and Administration spokesmen, that last week's pact was but a single step toward a comprehensive peace. Says Hisham Sharabi, a Georgetown University historian and president of the National Association of Arab Americans: "The treaty doesn't even touch the central problem of Palestinian self-determination. As a result, the Arab world is more bitter and frustrated than ever...
While Safran agrees that the Palestinian problem has not been resolved, he stresses that the treaty "gives the parties time to accomplish what they might not otherwise have been able to. The whole framework, indeed, could unravel. But the solidifying element of the American commitment will work in favor of an agreement on the Palestinian question." And Princeton's Fouad Ajami, a native of Lebanon, who is very sympathetic to the Palestinians, admits that the treaty surely places the Palestinians in no worse a situation than they were. Says he: "They were not going anywhere before the treaty...
...negotiations on Palestinian autonomy proceed, will Israel's own Arab population become more militant...
...want to improve their economic situation. But I can say that the Arab minority in Israel enjoys a better economic situation than any Arab in all the 21 Arab countries-except, of course, the rich people, the sheiks and the millionaires. This, by the by, also applies to the Palestinian Arabs who live in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. They have never had such a blossoming economy...