Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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2) Israeli-Jordanian agreement on control of Jerusalem and its holy places.
3) A choice for Palestinian Arab refugees of repatriation or compensation by the Israeli government.
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A case can be made that the U.S. plan is indeed evenhanded. It offers Israel a way to unload the West Bank, which it cannot keep without making a fourth of its population Arab. It also provides what may well be the only moral (if not necessarily realistic) solution to...
Strong Language. The U.S. plan, in any case, created a government crisis. Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington for a special Cabinet meeting. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, rejected the proposals in unusually strong language. The U.S. Jewish community was anguished...