Word: settlement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newspaper Ha'aretz showed that 47.6% of his countrymen expressed dissatisfaction with his efforts, while only 37% gave approval. Though he could probably push the proposed agreement through the Knesset, he would have opposition from left, right and even the center of his own Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel...
...Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who favors an overall settlement that would include Syria and the Palestinians rather than piecemeal negotiations, accepts the outlined accord reluctantly. "Acceptance of the settlement is better than rejection of it," says Eban. "Its shortcomings are very tangible and concrete, and its gains are very speculative. But if the alternative to acceptance is deadlock or war, it must be accepted...
Egypt's gain from the settlement would be much more obvious. It would get back some of its territory and a new domestic source of oil at Abu Rudeis, which would increase Egypt's production by about one-third and allow it even to export oil. The Suez Canal would be a little farther away from the muzzles of Israeli cannons. Sadat might even be able to begin thinking about reining in his defense expenditures, which now devour $2 billion, or 25% of the gross national product (v. $3.6 billion, or 30% for Israel). Sadat is hard-pressed...
Essential Step. Despite all the agony the agreement has caused, it is still only an interim settlement, and the easiest part to solve of the many-sided Arab-Israeli conflict. There is much less room for give on the Golan Heights, which are disputed by both Israel and Syria; both countries appear intractable on the issues. A solution to the Palestinian problem is nowhere in sight, and there seems little hope for compromise on ownership of the West Bank of the Jordan. Jerusalem is coveted by both sides for its religious shrines and its symbolic authority, but the Israelis...
...real problem with the interim settlement, in the opinion of some Americans and Israelis alike, is not what Israel may lose in giving up part of the Sinai. It is rather that the necessity for a general Arab-Israeli settlement may be overlooked in the euphoria of success. Because the proposed settlement would run for three years, there may be a temptation, despite all pledges to the contrary, to shelve further peace efforts until the end of that time. Warns Nadav Safran, professor of government at Harvard and the author of a number of books and studies on the Arab...