Word: settlement
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...because Israel refused to express its willingness to withdraw from Arab territory. Sadat acknowledged that the Israeli people had shown "in the most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt...
...Israeli and Egyptian Defense Ministers in Cairo, Sadat's spirits seemed to falter. In an interview in the authoritative October magazine, Sadat said he had "absolutely no hope" that Egypt and Israel can agree on a declaration of principles that Cairo seeks as a basis for a comprehensive settlement. The peace process was in danger, he explained later, because of two important unresolved issues: the question of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and the future status of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...
...fact, Israel's insistence on keeping its mainly agricultural settlements in the occupied territories is based neither on security requirements nor historical parallels but on economic and political considerations. The approximately 90 settlements (20 of them in the Sinai) have cost about $1 billion to build. They are inhabited today by only about 11,000 Israelis: 3,000 in Sinai, 4,500 in the West Bank and 3,500 on the Golan Heights. In addition, about 50,000 Israelis have settled in the formerly Arab-held suburbs of Jerusalem. Altogether, their numbers are not great, but the settlers have...
...effort to find a way to invite King Hussein's participation. The Shah also favors the creation of an autonomous West Bank-Gaza region under Jordanian sovereignty. He then flew to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabian leaders. The Saudis share the Shah's desire for a settlement, though they have a longstanding suspicion of the Iranians and are privately uneasy about the possibility of an Iranian-Israeli-Egyptian axis emerging after an eventual peace settlement...
While a complete military triumph seems out of the question, he feels that Berlin could negotiate a settlement with Moscow ("Stalin need take no account of his public opinion"), thus freeing German forces to contend with the Allies in the West. This was probably the master propagandist's final delusion. As Soviet tanks rumbled through Berlin on May 1, 1945 -21 days after his last entry and the day following Hitler's suicide in the Fiihrer-bunker-Goebbels and his wife Magda methodically poisoned their six children and then killed themselves...