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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House's South Lawn just three weeks ago, but Kelman has quietly been bringing together leaders from both Israeli and Arab camps since 1971, employing the ideas of political psychology to help promote understanding between the groups...
...said the recent mutual recognition of Israel and the PLO will have a positive effect on the group discussions. "I'm not saying it will be easy, but now we have a better atmosphere for doing...
...toured the United States to raise private money for an organization dedicated to expanding the Israeli presence on the West Bank. As he wrapped up his trip in New York, Sharon was seriously upstaged by word of secret negotiations that had finally borne fruit. The Israeli government and the PLO had forged the way for limited interim sovereignty and mutual recognition...
...particularly struck by one of General Sharon's statements. "Who could have imagined, even one year ago," he wailed, red-faced with indignation, "that Israel would deal with the PLO?" Change the intonation, subtract the angry epithets ("a gang of terrorists") that Sharon attached at the end of the phrase, and it's exactly the message we're hearing from architects and supporters of the Gaza-Jericho plan...
Unfortunately, Sharon and the hard-liners have let this peculiar comfort in asperity overrule calculation--even cynical calculation. How can Israel deal with the PLO, he asks--its untouchable status is part of the architecture. It is to Israel's advantage to have a PLO whose legitimacy is grounded in its special relationship to Israel; still, the hard-liners balk. Recognizing the PLO, though it opens up tremendous possibilities, could upset the House Likud Built...