Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's statement predictably evoked howls of outrage from friends of Israel, for whom "self-determination" is a synonym for an independent Palestinian state. They denounced it as capitulation to oil blackmail. Rita Hauser, a prominent New York Republican, quit her post as top Jewish adviser in Connally's campaign. Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate David Marston publicly snubbed the Texan by refusing to be photographed with...
Connally has a point, and he consulted such experts as Henry Kissinger and Jordan's King Hussein before adopting it. Although his proposal goes somewhat further than Jimmy Carter's support of a Palestinian "homeland," self-determination is obviously a principle that has widespread support. Indeed, some experts believe it is the only principle that can attract the volatile Palestinians to the negotiating table. Other experts wonder, nonetheless, what coercion would persuade the Israelis to agree to any plan that might bring the Palestine Liberation Organization to sovereign power. And, although the pro-Israeli protests may be exaggerated...
...autonomy talks back on track. At week's end Strauss reported that there had been some progress in the negotiations. The three parties agreed that elections in the West Bank and Gaza need not be carried out under international supervision, but instead would be run by Palestinian and Israeli officials...
Further evidence of the Israeli government's sensitivity on the Palestinian question came to light last week when it became known that a ministerial censorship committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas...
...want to decide the Palestinians' future, and neither do I want them to decide ours. They want a Palestinian state, and they absolutely don't want any Israeli ruling them; yet they do want open borders. We should start by giving a lot, by withdrawing the military administration, even though we get nothing in return. We would pull out our military forces, unless of course the P.L.O. took over and what we had planned as a peaceful region suddenly turned into a base for terrorism. Then, we would come back with a stronger force...