Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wary of charges by Arab rejectionists that they had betrayed the common cause, the Egyptians were determined to hold Israel to its promise of establishing Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza, which could lead to an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty within five years. Thus, they proposed last week that the evolution toward normal diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt should also take place over a five-year period. Specifically, they sought to insert a clause in the draft treaty calling for a review of the situation in five years. The Israelis spurned this idea, calling it a "nasty...
...massive weapons stockpiling lent a new urgency, and a growing sense of futility, to President Elias Sarkis' search for an end to the bloodshed. Since 1973, when clashes between Palestinian guerrillas and the Christian-dominated Lebanese army presaged a bloody civil war, at least 37,000 - and perhaps as many as 100,000 - people have been killed. Moreover, a new attack on its Christian friends could provoke Israel into massive retaliatory raids, threatening the peace talks with Egypt that began last week...
...presidency is reserved for a Maronite, while the less powerful posts of Prime Minister and president of the Chamber of Deputies are set aside for, respectively, a Sunni and a Shi'ite Muslim. The precarious balance between religious groups fell apart in 1970, when 15,000 well-armed Palestinian guerrillas were driven out of Jordan by King Hussein's "Black September" offensive. Joining 75,000 Palestinians already in the country, they turned southern Lebanon into a staging area for raids on Israel...
...restoring electricity. People who intend to stay on are stocking their shelters with Israeli canned goods. The Christians' ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. Throughout the civil war, their sections of Beirut were free from garbage and crime, in marked contrast to the areas under Palestinian control. Once more the Maronites are demonstrating their competence and courage. When a group of Christians trying to escape from East Beirut came under Syrian machine-gun fire, their leader shouted, 'Let's keep going! It's better to be shot standing up than getting...
...disagreement will become academic. Says a U.S. diplomat: "In the next three months, everybody understands that no new settlements can be allowed to interfere with the peace talks. After that, we don't think the Israelis will want to dampen in enthusiasm of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians to participate in self-rule." To anticipate such enthusiasm among the Palestinians may be a bit of wishful overstatement. Moreover, the degree of Israeli concern for West Bank Palestinian aspirations remains to be seen. But deciding how Palestinian self-rule will come about is the next big step in the peace...