ABSTRACT
The US continued its services of good offices to the parties but most of the time the level and intensity of its exertions showed no expectation of quick results. US diplomats, as had become their habit, claimed that their quiet diplomatic work was laying the foundations for future progress. The thrust of Jordanian public statements led to the unmistakable conclusion that there was no change in the Jordanian position. Jordan, together with Palestinian representatives, would make peace with Israel but only in return for all of the West Bank and Gaza territories. Egypt could not believe that peace with Israel would be stable and allowed to prosper as long as the Palestinian question remained unresolved. Egyptian-Israeli relations would develop only when Israel gave practical meaning to its recognition — expressed at Camp David in 1978 — of the Palestinian people's legitimate rights.
