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...Even Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was - caught off guard by the fury of the people he calls his own. Arafat tried to get back into the game last week by renewing his call for an international peace conference. Speaking from his office in Baghdad, Arafat declared that he would be willing to accept all U.N. resolutions, including Resolution 242, which recognizes Israel's right to exist, in exchange for P.L.O. participation in the peace conference...
...sympathy for the Palestinians is hypocritical; for nearly four decades, the Arab states have done next to nothing to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. At the Arab summit in Amman last month, the leaders paid little attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict and virtually ignored the presence of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Arafat, ever the opportunist, gathered P.L.O. leaders for a meeting at their headquarters in Tunis to discuss the possibility of declaring a Palestinian government-in-exile...
...latest Arab summit, however, produced no progress in the Middle East's other continuing crisis, the Arab-Israeli conflict. The delegates largely ignored the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein tried huddling with him to soothe any hurt feelings. Nonetheless, relations between the two leaders were strained. Arafat petulantly boycotted a summit banquet hosted by Hussein because he was not accorded the honors of a head of state...
...deserves to be received by Pope John Paul II. Jesus loved sinners while detesting their sins. It is the Pope's job to represent this remarkable Jew in today's complex world. The Pope has extended his embrace to Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate him, to Yasser Arafat and to the Communist rulers in his native Poland. So should he embrace Waldheim...
Last fall, for instance, Moscow arranged several meetings of the P.L.O.'s main factions, leading directly to a reconciliation in April between P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization and two Damascus-based hard-line groups. The result was a more unified and radicalized P.L.O. in which the influence of two pro-Western countries, Egypt and Jordan, was diminished...