The PLO has set up an extensive…

The PLO has set up an extensive bureaucratic structure by the early 1980s, providing health, housing, educational, legal, media, and labor services for Palestinians both inside and outside the camps.

Jordan and the Palestinians have refused to negotiate autonomy since the signing of the Camp David accords; a three-year attempt by Israel, Egypt, and the United States to develop the plan on their own comes to naught.

Begin meanwhile refuses to halt the building of new Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.