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Likewise, to make a realistic effort towards Mideast peace, we should negotiate with everyone possible, including the PLO. If we really want to end violence in the Mideast; we cannot shut our eyes to the Palestinian problem nor with their organizations away...
...PART OF the movement among minority groups to bolster third world unity, the national Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) will consider at its national convention later this week a resolution endorsing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. The Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) which last spring formed a Third World Coalition with other minority law student groups, will consider the resolution today...
Though such a move might well bolster third world unity, for any group to declare formal support for the PLO would be misguided. Despite the show put on by PLO leader Yassir Arafat for Western journalists last summer, the PLO is a violent terrorist organization, not a political representative of the Palestinian people...
...PLO's refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist should disqualify the organization in any political settlement. The purpose of the PLO, as delineated its charter is the destruction of Israel. And the means employed-the bombing of northern Israel, the terrorizing of southern Lebanon, and the holding of civilians in Beirut last summer-discount the PLO from participation in the peace process...
Unless the PLO recants both these means and ends, it cannot be seen as a political group working in the best interest of the Palestinian people...