Word: settlement
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...ISRAELI CABINET'S announcement last Sunday that the Begin government will continue to promote settlements in the occupied territories of the Sinai peninsula and the West Bank of the Jordan River is as disappointing to Israel's friends as it must be maddening to her foes. Coming at a time when the much-vaunted Sadat initiative appears to be losing momentum, the cabinet's action has vitiated any lingering hopes of a quick peace settlement while creating even greater obstacles to any future negotiations...
...refusing to change its present settlements policy the Begin government has acted not only to estrange further such hardline Zionist opponents as Syria and the PLO, but to push moderates such as Egypt's President Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein towards the hardliners' position of intransigence. Sadat has made it clear throughout the negotiations that without a change in the settlements policy he could not hope to gain acceptance of a peace agreement either in Egypt or the other Arab nations, and the Begin cabinet's refusal to compromise on this issue can only be seen as a diplomatically...
Observers in Israel have suggested that the cabinet's decision represents an attempted compromise between the moderates who want to suspend settlement activity and extremists who have called for major new developments. In fact, neither the compromise nor the moderate position is acceptable: unless Israel not only suspends development of new settlements but withdraws from those already established in the Sinai, there is simply no chance of a peace settlement. The refusal of the Begin cabinet and particularly of the right wing of the Begin government's coalition to recognize this fact can only lead to a continued state...
...black Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo last week was readying his 8,000-man Zimbabwe African People's Union for war on Smith, and mortar fire and artillery barrages from Mozambique crashed into the rugged foothills and tea estates near Rhodesia's Chimanimani Mountains. In view of such reactions, the settlement between Smith and the three black leaders appears to be more an uncertain beginning than an end. The Prime Minister may recognize this. But in an interview last week with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, Smith reiterated his pledge to bring about black rule...
...international recognition of Smith's internal settlement. The majority of reactions have been inclined toward us, in particular responses from the U.S. and Britain. I think we must concede that they are the two most important players in this game outside Rhodesia, so we would hope to get a favorable response from them. If that comes, then I don't think there is any problem as far as the rest of the free world is concerned...