Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Bank itself becomes a Palestinian entity. To ease Israel's legitimate fears about the creation of a new Arab realm whose western frontier would be 8.5 miles from Tel Aviv, the Palestinian entity would not possess all the attributes of a sovereign state-at least for a transition period that could last as long as 25 years. It would, however, have its own flag, a parliament and executive and judicial bodies. It could issue passports to all Palestinians living anywhere in the world-an act of enormous symbolic importance to these 3.4 million people without a homeland...
...Palestinian entity would have three limits on its sovereignty: 1) it would be allowed to have only police and limited self-defense forces, subject to international inspection; 2) it would be prohibited from making any international agreements directed against Israel; 3) it would have to tolerate the presence within its borders of an international peace-keeping force, presumably under United Nations auspices...
...Palestinian entity begins life under United Nations auspices; economically, it would need ties with both Israel and Jordan, and politically, it should be federated in some manner with the Hashemite kingdom. Eventually, the citizens of the new entity should have the right to determine their political status, such as independence with full sovereignty, continued federation with Jordan (53% of whose population is Palestinian) or with Israel. Whatever the choice, Israel -and Jordan-must have assurances that the new entity will not become a threat to the stability of its neighbors...
Gaza. Most of the 406,000 people who live in this narrow strip along the Mediterranean are Palestinians. Since the area has no traditional links to Sinai or Egypt, Gaza should be joined politically to the new Palestinian entity on the West Bank and subjected to similar limitations on its sovereignty. Although no geographic link between Gaza and the West Bank is feasible, Israel must guarantee unobstructed passage of goods and people between the two areas-perhaps via something comparable to the access routes from West Germany to West Berlin...
...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...