Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only yesterday we were being hailed as the commando troops of Zionism. Now we have become the main obstacle to a peace settlement...
...said Shlomo Re'em, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Di-Zahav on the Gulf of Aqaba. As TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy discovered on a tour through Sinai last week, inhabitants of the 18 Israeli settlements in the peninsula are united in feeling that they have been betrayed by the Camp David accords, and by their own government...
...administration decided to make an "exception" to the U.N. sanctions against Rhodesia because "we believe the visit can contribute to the process of achieving a settlement," Thomas Reston, a Department spokesman, said yesterday...
...commitment to resolve the Palestinian issue "in all its aspects." It also calls on Egypt and Israel to formulate concrete "modalities" for negotiations over the status of the West Bank that will include Palestinian representatives, and that will give the West Bank Palestinians veto power over a finished settlement...
...there are two problems. One is that for the time being this "framework" is just words. The other is that Begin has already begun to re-interpret several major concessions--on the moratorium on West Bank settlements, and on Israeli military withdrawal from the West Bank--in a way that gives reason to wonder whether it will ever be more than words. It is therefore legitimate for the Arab states to be keeping their distance from the Camp David agreements, at least until they hear spelled out in more detail what the specifics of the West Bank negotiations...