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...private meetings with reporters and diplomats in New York, Farouk Kaddoumi, the de facto foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has hinted strongly that his organization is prepared to recognize Israel's right to exist under certain conditions. But back in Beirut, Yasser Arafat's political adviser, Hani Hassan, still insists that "our response must be: no recognition of the state of Israel. Anyone who reconciles himself with the enemy and recognizes the enemy will be eliminated." This constant inconsistency has led U.S. diplomats to adopt what one jokingly calls the five-day rule: "Any P.L.O. statement...
...away the bewildering variations in its spokesmen's positions partly as a word game and partly as a form of psychological warfare in response to Israeli statements on the Middle East. But they also reflect another reality: the Palestinian movement is a barely yoked anarchy, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat is subject to a constituency that can usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality; rarely does he command. Some...
After a meeting with Egypt's Sadat in Cairo last week, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat notified his staffs in Beirut to devise some ways to get to Geneva, even if that meant less direct representation than they felt entitled to. Otherwise, he warned, they might miss a one-shot chance and be forced into another 30-year struggle for their rights. One thing was certain, however, despite the talk of compromise. "If any Palestinians try to go to Geneva without our approval," a P.L.O. official in New York told TIME last week, "they will be assassinated. We absolutely will...
...instance, the Palestine National Council renewed its call for a state on any soil given up by Israel, but dropped a clause added to a similar resolution in 1974 that designated such a state as a base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity on any Arab territory given up by Israel-implying a willingness to coexist, albeit reluctantly, with the Jewish state. To promise more without getting a quid pro quo would be difficult for Arafat, who has a diffused and unwieldy constituency...
...Chairman Yasser Arafat promised that his men would not betray the agreement. Said Arafat: "We are prepared to assist the Lebanese army in taking up positions in southern Lebanon...