Reagan announces a plan for Arab-Israeli peace…
September 1982 CE
Reagan announces a plan for Arab-Israeli peace that pointedly applies the Resolution 242 formula to the Palestinian issue.
It also makes special mention of Israel's rights to "fair safeguards" with regard to West Bank water, the only exception specifically noted to the "real authority" that is to be granted the Palestinian inhabitants ("Talking Points"; The New York Times, September 9, 1982).
The plan is designed, in part, to appease Arab anger and to revive the Jordanian option, but it is rejected by an Arab summit and hotly opposed by an alarmed Begin.