Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko issued a 700-word joint declaration that brought Moscow back into the Middle East peace picture. The unique declaration called for a comprehensive Middle East settlement, to include Israel's withdrawal from occupied territory, termination of a state of war, and the "resolution of the Palestinian question." The U.S. thus agreed formally that the Palestinians had "legitimate rights" in any settlement...
...course for the Geneva mountain somewhere between the declaration with the Soviets and his deal with Dayan. During his 35-minute address, Carter touched on many of the code words and phrases most cherished by both sides in the Middle East debate (see box). He supported legitimate Palestinian "rights" ?which Carter, in a slip of the tongue that drew a chuckle from even the somber Dayan, first called "Panamanian" rights. (One Latin American delegate observed, "He's hung up on the canal, and rightly...
...Sadat and heightens the possibility of another oil embargo. Settlement is imperative now, as Carter told the U.N. last week, because "of all the regional conflicts in the world, none holds more menace." In the U.S. view, three problems have to be settled somehow?territory, peaceful relations and the Palestinians ?and the Administration blames Israeli intransigence for much of the frustration. Since January, as a result, the White House strategy?as Israeli supporters in the U.S. are angrily aware?has been a deliberate, escalating diplomatic offensive to nudge Israel toward negotiations that could lead to both peace...
...Secretary of State, all sides seemed ready for a comprehensive settlement. The Arabs realized that a return to Geneva offered the alternative to a war to recover occupied territories. The Israelis perceived it as the only way to obtain true peace. But what of the status of the Palestinians? Two years ago, the Brookings Institution, in a study report on the Middle East now famous as "the purple pamphlet," had called for an independent Palestinian state or entity as a possible solution. Among the authors of the purple pamphlet: Zbig Brzezinski, then a professor of political science at Columbia University...
...without concomitant recognition from Israel, but its leaders have suddenly seemed to be amenable to compromises. Farouk Kaddoumi, who acts as the organization's foreign minister, complained predictably that "our rights are fundamental, not negotiable." But he also indicated, for the first time, some give on the question of Palestinian representation at Geneva in the U.A.D...