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...center of the controversy was Deena Abu-Loghod, an employee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who came to the conference to participate in a two-hour afternoon panel. While marchers outside carried signs denouncing the PLO, the audience inside gave Abu-Loghod a generally warm reception...
Israel will never turn over the West Bank to an unsupervised Palestinian government. Such a move would be an invitation to further PLO-engineered violence, and no Israeli administration could hope to stay in power after an apparent surrender to Yassir Arafat. The only real hope at this point is that enough Israeli citizens will realize that Begin's confrontational policies have only threatened their nation's long-term security by unifying Arab forces and alienating American opinion...
...other side, the Palestinians' senseless refusal to recognize Israel and substitute diplomacy for terrorism creates an additional obstacle--one buttressed by the obstinance of nations such as Jordan and Syria, themselves responsible for more Palestinian civilian dislocation and carnage than all of Begin's attacks on Lebanese PLO camps put together...
...SEMANTICS OF MUTUAL or implicit recognition, however, do not hold out the prospects of an eventual and enduring settlement. That must be achieved by genuine compromise--Israel must retreat from its stubborn West Bank policy and the PLO must back down from maximalism. Neither the status quo which Begin supports nor the status quo ante which the PLO trumpets has much grounding in the reality or the ideal of pace...
...forces are conspiring in favor of the impossibilists and against the possibilists. The PLO, whose status as the appropriate representative of the Palestinians is questionable, cannot afford to risk the animosity of the Soviets or the other Arab states by entering into a meaningful peace process with Israel that would guarantee Israel security. And Begin has staked too much domestically on Camp David and the West Bank to be able to bargain with the PLO and keep his tenuous hold on parliam0entary power...