Word: statehood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beirut with new respectability would thus, in Jerusalem's view, amount to letting a brilliant military victory turn into a galling political defeat. There is a worldwide suspicion, too, that Begin's government has no intention of ever negotiating Palestinian self-determination (a code word for eventual statehood) with the P.L.O. or anyone else, but aims instead at a creeping annexation of the West Bank...
Arafat forgets that a Palestinian state was declared at the same time Israel came into being and was immediately occupied by Jordanian troops. There was no outcry for statehood until the Israelis drove the Jordanians...
...which would irritate their Arab oil suppliers and undercut their own broader peace initiative. Based on the European Community's 1980 Venice declaration, it calls for associating the P.L.O. with the peace process and for Palestinian "self-determination," a term the Israelis see as a code word for statehood. After intense consultations, the four European countries formally accepted the U.S. invitation to join the M.F.O. But, in effect, they reaffirmed the principles of the Venice declaration...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
...transport spurred the development of business in both Hawaii and Alaska and helped to open them to statehood. It also fueled the growth of Puerto Rico and made it a leading business center of the Caribbean...