Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of Israel's as his historic trip to Jerusalem in April and his unwavering support for the Jewish state since 1948 attest. He has stuck to those stands in spite of the terrorism of the last few months. But the President, on the other hand, also believes a Palestinian homeland is both right and necessary. One of his advisors explains: "In the long run, killing off the PLO is not going to help Israel. There will always be a Palestinian movement, each day, more and more frustrated. Better to maintain the PLO as a strictly political force with some...
...bold try to reconcile Israel's security needs and Palestinian rights...
Speaking on national television shortly after the last guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization left Beirut, the President looked far beyond Lebanon to call for "a fresh start" on ministering to the most serious of all the Middle East's festering sores: the status of the Palestinian people, especially the 1.3 million living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Reagan dropped the former U.S. role of anxious and often baffled mediator to outline an American plan for progress toward a settlement, setting out some firm U.S. guidelines while leaving the Arabs and Israelis plenty of room...
...Israel will eventually soften Begin's hard-line stand. There was little public comment from Arab leaders, most of whom will meet at a summit this week in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Arabs, who have formally designated the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, can hardly endorse Reagan's Jordanian option without much painful soul searching...
...help the Lebanese to rebuild their war-torn country." But, he said, putting Lebanon back together should be only a start. "We must also move to resolve the root causes of conflict between Arabs and Israelis." He identified the most troublesome root as being the "homelessness of the Palestinian people," coupled with Israeli fear that fulfilling their demands for a homeland would give birth to a contiguous, Soviet-dominated terrorist nation bent on destruction of the Jewish state. Said Reagan: "The question now is how to reconcile Israel's legitimate security concerns with the legitimate rights of the Palestinians...