Word: arafat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Events in Mecca were being followed closely and with great concern in Tunisia, where 20 Arab heads of state, plus Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, had gathered for their annual meeting. An honor guard wearing plumed gold helmets presented arms with drawn swords as the leaders trooped into Tunis' Palais de Congrès for a summit that one Kuwaiti delegate predicted would be a "love feast." He meant that there would be no public arguments about divisive subjects and that the leaders would merely reaffirm their opposition to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for signing the Camp David...
...pantheon of world leaders, but that he had never bothered to read any of my other interviews. That is not what he said to me when he received me in his office. For one full hour he discussed my interviews with Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto and Yasser Arafat, and explained that leaders don't have to be intelligent, only strong and determined...
Then came a surprising development: an apparent offer by the P.L.O. to try to negotiate for the hostages' lives. P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat sent two emissaries, including a close military adviser, Saed Say el (also known as Abu Walid), to Tehran. The State Department said that it welcomed assistance and recalled that the P.L.O. had helped arrange the evacuation of several hundred Americans from Beirut in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war. The Administration was reluctant to depart from U.S. policy toward the P.L.O., namely, that it will not recognize or negotiate with the organization until it acknowledges Israel...
...mission did not go well. Fearful of jeopardizing the P.L.O.'s close ties with Khomeini, Sayel announced that he would not be a mediator after all, because the "situation is only related to the revolution in Iran." Some P.L.O. leaders implied that, in the end, Arafat himself might be willing to go to Tehran to try his luck with the stubborn Iranians...
...Kristof claims that the terrorist PLO has a "sincere desire for peace" and is in fact "privately...resigned to accept...Israel's existence as a fact of life." That is simply not the case. He evidently is referring to Arafat's acceptance of UN Resolution 3236, which the SCLC says recognizes Israel's right to exist, but in fact does not in any way. The Palestinian National Covenant of the PLO still calls for "armed struggle (as) the overall strategy" (Art. 9) and the "total liberation of Palestine" (Art. 21). wre these the slogans of an organization which wants peace...