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...logic of power aside, there is no certainty what choice Saddam will make. British diplomats reported last week that Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had held talks with Saddam in Baghdad. According to the report, Arafat found Saddam nervous and often confused during their discussions. He was particularly furious at the personal attacks on him by Bush and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This mood may account for Saddam's strange appearance on television as the misunderstood statesman. If his judgment is that poor, he may yet turn his country into a battlefield...
...find his American hosts less insistent on Israeli concessions. A full-scale confrontation in the Middle East makes this an inauspicious time for the U.S. to be pressuring its closest ally in the area. Besides, the Iraqi dictator's well-publicized embraces last week of Palestine ) Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and the Precarious Little King of Jordan make it all the easier for hawkish Israelis to say: You expect us to deal with these people...
...three-year-old uprising in the occupied territories has pushed the Palestine Liberation Organization tighter into Iraq's embrace. Frustrated Palestinians regard Saddam as the one man willing to do more than mouth empty words for their cause; many have come to regard him as a potential savior. Chairman Yasser Arafat may feel he has little choice but to back Saddam. Still, Arafat will have a tough time explaining his rejection of last week's pan-Arab resolution to his benefactors in the gulf states...
...Europeans the impression that he opposed the cutoff, has privately asked the British to act as a link between the U.S. and the P.L.O. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has agreed to Baker's request, and will soon visit the Middle East, where he is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat. The P.L.O. leader has accepted the Baker approach...
...Israeli Prime Minister a few weeks back. But just talk. Yitzhak Shamir and his hard-line colleagues have shrugged off worse from Washington before. So they sat tight, and last Wednesday their arrogance was rewarded. Baker's studied pique was undermined by Washington's suspension of its dialogue with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. It would now appear that the U.S. is talking to neither side in the Arab-Israeli dispute, a stance that at best is dangerous: history proves that the Middle East roils whenever prospects for peace recede...