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...Arafat and was the only Fatah member on the P.L.O.'s executive committee. A onetime lawyer, Abu Yusuf acted as a kind of Foreign Minister for the P.L.O., representing it skillfully in negotiations with Arab governments. The Israelis regarded him as also a leader of the shadowy Palestinian terrorist group, Black September. Abu Daoud, the Al-Fatah leader imprisoned in Jordan, seemed to support this belief in a recent "confession" about the inner workings of Fatah, but other Palestinians contend that his statement was made under duress and was untrue...
...Arafat on the Persian Gulf, he was also influential in Fatah affairs, though he shunned publicity. He established one of the original Palestinian resistance cells and, at his death, was responsible for P.L.O. intelligence in Israeli-occupied territories. To the Israelis, this meant that he was in charge of terrorist acts within these areas...
...land ownership -some of them caused by opportunistic Moslems who sold the same piece of property to different people-finally erupted into sectarian violence in late 1969. Christian immigrants formed quasi-vigilante groups called Ilagas (rats) to ward off Moslems who were trying to seize land. The Moslems formed terrorist gangs known as Barracudas and Blackshirts. As the communal violence spread, young Moslem intellectuals began to oppose not only the Christian settlers and the government but even their own elderly Moslem leaders, whom they accused of corruption. The young dissidents preached secession...
...Israelis can afford to delay, and the Arabs cannot bring themselves to do otherwise. Even the Arabs' hopes for the Palestinian fedayeen as a force that could break the impasse have faded, although, as one U.S. diplomat observes, "We will have the terrorist problem in the Middle East as long as the Palestinian problem is not solved." Of particular concern is the uncontrollable Black September group, which some fedayeen leaders in Beirut describe as "not an organization but a state of mind." They mean that various groups of fedayeen who become disgruntled may temporarily declare themselves members of Black...
...Washington last week, there were hopes that the horror of Khartoum might induce more Arab states to crack down on terrorist activities throughout the Middle East. As President Nixon put it: "The nation that compromises with the terrorists today could well be destroyed by the terrorists tomorrow...