Word: rabat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. placed Israel in an agonizing dilemma. The Israelis have steadfastly insisted that any future settlement involving the West Bank must involve Jordan; they have refused even to consider discussions with what Premier Yitzhak Rabin has described as "terrorist organizations whose avowed aim is Israel's destruction." The Rabat decision seemed to mean that there could be no negotiations on the West Bank?and for that matter no overall settlement?unless the Palestinian question, meaning the P.L.O., was faced directly...
Discouraging Relations. Understandably, he has a particular interest in discovering how the summit decision affects the most moderate of Arab leaders, Egyptian President Sadat. At Rabat, Sadat denied that the endorsement of Arafat would affect his own negotiating plans. The fact is, however, that Egypt...
...Soviets had reason to be delighted. Kissinger has been able to shut them out of Middle East negotiations by holding talks bilaterally rather than at the formal Middle East peace conference in Geneva, to which Moscow is a party. But one implication of the Rabat decision is that the Arabs want the P.L.O. to be a participant in any peace conference...
...Israeli frame of mind was not helped by the evidence that the commandos have not abandoned terrorism as a tactic. Just as the Rabat summit ended, three fedayeen were caught crossing into Israel from Lebanon; they were shot to death after an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis reacted predictably by dispatching a fleet of small warships up the Mediterranean coast. The boats stood three miles offshore from a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh in Lebanon and bombarded it, killing five Palestinians and injuring...
Wounded Wolves. Israeli fears about the future were magnified by the fact that Arafat was anything but gracious over the Rabat decision (see interview page 31). "Victory is close at hand," he told the summit session. "This enemy, this military gang [meaning Israel] is a pack of wounded wolves. They are preparing for a fifth war, and we must get ready for it." Syrians whom Washington constantly suspects of trying to sabotage the Kissinger peace negotiations echoed Arafat's warlike words. They indicated that Damascus would probably approve another six-month tour for United Nations troops that separate Syrians...