mula for Palestinianself-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the 1980sregional tensions were increased by the activities of militantPalestinians and other Arab extremists and by several Israeliactions. The latter included the formal proclamation of theentire city of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital (1980), theannexation of the Golan Heights (1981), the invasion ofsouthern Lebanon (1982), and the continued expansion of Israelisettlement in the occupied West Bank....
