Word: problems
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...future of East Jerusalem is unquestionably the thorniest problem of all. Certainly no Israeli government could renegotiate its status and hope to survive. The Palestinians are adamant that East Jerusalem must be returned to Arab sovereignty, yet they also agree that the city should not be redivided. It is conceivable that an eventual compromise might be reached by which West Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and East Jerusalem would become the Palestinian capital. According to one such plan, the city could be operated under a borough system, with a council elected by both communities, and with Jewish...
...Begin might accept some limits on expanding settlements during the five-year transition period. Carter might persuade Sadat to drop his demand that the autonomy council have some legislative powers. Such concessions could keep the Camp David peace process on its current slow track, but would ignore the real problem. There is unmistakable evidence that the Palestinians, in the occupied territories or in exile, simply will not accept any autonomy plan that does not offer the prospect of true self-determination. And that means the possibility of a Palestinian state...
...time, thereby forcing new elections. The certain winner perhaps even with a clear majority in the Knesset, according to recent polls would be the Labor Party, which has never been particularly enthusiastic about settlements for settlements' sake. The Labor solution to the West Bank problem has traditionally involved a "territorial compromise" with Jordan, perhaps leading to a West Bank-East Bank state whose population would be roughly 80% Palestinian...
...ride the Islamic horse after the Afghanistan invasion. But you forget completely that this is a horse with an Achilles' heelthe Palestine question. That is the whole issue in this area. There can be no stability, no security and no solution to the Middle East peace problem by ignoring Palestinian rights...
Mahmud Abu Zuluf, 54, is editor of East Jerusalem's influential Al Quds, the largest Arabic daily on the West Bank. He supports the Camp David agreement as "the first practical step toward a settlement of the Palestinian problem. If the situation is left to extremists on both sides, there will never be an agreement." He believes, however, that the establishment of new Jewish settlements on the West Bank shows that the Begin government is seeking only to maintain the status quo in order to tighten its grip over the occupied territories. "The settlement activity shows that Israel...