Word: statehooder
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...move directly to negotiations on a final settlement, which are supposed to begin in little more than a year. That idea is under consideration by Rabin's government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it hopes to make the Palestinian capital...
...always been very helpful to the Puerto Rico community," Santiago agrees. "He promised to help Puerto Rico to ensure whether [it will achieve] statehood or commonwealth...
...keeping with the Bucharest principle, Israel bowed to several P.L.O. demands aimed at giving the autonomy authority at least some of the trappings of statehood. The Gaza Strip will have its own international dialing code, no longer sharing Israel's 972 exchange, and the Palestinian authority will be empowered to issue passports to residents of the two enclaves. In return, the P.L.O. accepted a three-mile limitation on territorial waters off the Gaza Strip and gave Israel air rights over the self-rule zones...
...first step toward autonomy throughout the occupied territories. On Feb. 9, the two sides signed an agreement settling most of the security issues but leaving some details undecided. Palestinians complain that the Israelis have been shying away from anything suggesting they were giving the Palestinians the appurtenances of statehood: they did not even want to let the Palestinians issue their own postage stamps. Arafat's aides say Rabin seemed to think time was on his side; the longer an agreement took, the more desperate the P.L.O. would become...
...issue of statehood isn't the only problem with the accord. The Declaration of Principles does not mention the future of the Palestinian refugees and exiles in Jordan and Syria who have waited for years to return to their homes and land. It deliberately avoids the question of who will control the borders between the territories, Egypt and Jordan. It ignores the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and it limits the size of the area to be conceded by Israel to a space far too small for the creation of a stable state or economy...