Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confrontation with the Syrian army -would clearly threaten the outcome of those negotiations. So far, the Israelis' reaction to the fighting has been limited. They have provided the Christians with medical aid, and presumably some weapons, but they have not bombed and strafed Palestinian and Muslim strongholds as in previous Lebanese flare...
...Soviets to supply him with more arms and ammunition. The mission was fresh evidence of the heavy costs Syria had incurred since it intervened in Lebanon two years ago. Ironically, Assad's forces moved in to prevent the defeat of the Christian armies by radical Muslim and Palestinian commandos. Since then, however, the Syrians and the Christians have become bitter enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers have perished in running battles with the militiamen, who receive guns and training...
...make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number of Palestinian political prisoners...
...Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have denounced 'the Camp David accords as a sellout; Jordan's King Hussein has resisted all efforts to bring him into the peace process. In a recent secret meeting with a leading Israeli official, TIME has learned, Hussein again refused to join the negotiations. He complained that the Israelis had not left him any options that would make it possible for him to participate. Offering to give "all the guarantees you need that the West Bank will never become a Palestine Liberation Organization state," the King pleaded with the Israelis...
Washington will probably ease its pressure on Hussein. As one leading Egyptian diplomat puts it, "We need to give Hussein a little time." Once Israeli military rule is abolished in the occupied territories, it is more likely that Hussein could be persuaded to join in the effort to develop Palestinian self-government...