...Sinai is returned in May 1982, relations…

Abba Eban cites (in "Obstacles to Autonomy," New Outlook (Tel Aviv), June/July 1982) the official "Government policy guidelines" adopted by the Knesset (by a single vote), which state "After the transition period laid down in the Camp David accords, Israel will raise its claim and will act to fulfill its rights to sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza district. (Eban's emphasis).

"There is no resource of language," he notes, "that can possibly bridge the gulf" between the decision and the Camp David Agreement, which leaves the status of the territories to be determined after the transition period by negotiations between Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and elected representatives of the inhabitants of the territories, not by Israeli actions.