Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, Prime Minister Begin said his country would not tolerate any declaration of an independent Palestinian state by such a council...
...agreement. Arguments over this, says one participant, are "mind-blowing" and incredibly legalistic. Three hours devoted to "the inadmissibility of acquisitions" phrase. Worried Americans take lunch on a patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown this U.S. proposal. "This is much better," he says. "I think we're getting somewhere." But Sadat tells Carter...
While Egypt's President Anwar Sadat broke his homeward journey in Morocco to see one of his closest Arab allies, King Hassan II, and Jimmy Carter conferred with Sudanese President Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri, four hard-line Arab states and an assortment of Palestinian liberation groups assembled in Damascus for the third so-called Steadfast Summit. The theme: Fight Sadat?and topple him if possible...
...moderates, under the leadership of Hussein and Khalid, concluded that the Israelis had made no real concessions. They noted that the Camp David agreement ignored such Palestinian questions as the establishment of a homeland for refugees, as well as the P.L.O.'s claims to being the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, as agreed by the Arab states at the Rabat summit of 1974. Like many other Arabs, Khalid was particularly angry that the whole question of Jerusalem had been skirted at Camp David; he was almost livid when he heard that Begin was boasting that Jerusalem would remain...
...believe this with all my heart?have a right and a claim to sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. But there are other claims. So our idea was: "Let us leave the question of sovereignty open?undecided ?and let us deal with the human beings." The Palestinian Arabs will have autonomy, full autonomy. And we shall have security, mainly through the fact that Israeli defense forces will be stationed in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip...