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...lasting peace depends on the PLO guaranteeing Israel's security...
...reaction to the surreal sight of Rabin shaking hands with PLO leader Yassir Arafat that day was very different. We, like most Israelis, knew of Arafat's murderous history of terrorism, and his tactics of choosing children as targets and shopping malls as battlefields...
...Rabin and Peres have emphasized in the past few months, peace is never made with friends, only with enemies. Israel can't choose its negotiating partners--the ineffectiveness of the non-PLO Palestinian delegation to Madrid proved this point. For a negotiating partner with authority and legitimacy in the territories, Israel was forced to turn to Yassir Arafat and the PLO...
...doing so, it is important to realize that Israel did not accept the PLO on the basis of a profound change in the organization's ultimate goals. Indeed, Arafat has still not moved to revoke the clauses in the PLO charter that call for an armed struggle to destroy the Jewish state...
Palestinians should understand that this peace plan can only work if they convince the Israeli people that they harbor no hostile intentions. Popular support in Israel for concessions will disappear unless Palestinians bolster the shaky Israeli confidence in the PLO's commitment to Israeli in security. The PLO should cooperate with Israel in securing against infiltration by potentially violent anti-Israel extremists...