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...Arabs a blunt choice of three alternatives: to become Israeli citizens; to remain as "permanent residents" without citizenship, as some 80,000 others (many of them American Jews) already do; or to leave. "I am ready to talk to anyone-Palestinians, Syrians, anyone-for peace," he says. "That includes Yasser Arafat, although I think we should have killed him long...
...Islamic world was so concerned with mourning the King that there was little criticism of Egypt from less moderate Arab leaders who opposed the Kissinger talks all along. Sadat, nevertheless, stressed Egypt's support of Arab unity by conferring in Riyadh with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat after King Faisal's funeral. At Geneva, Egypt and Syria are expected to carry out the will of the Arab summit at Rabat last October by jointly demanding that the P.L.O. be seated instead of Jordan. The Soviets will automatically go along with such a resolution, but Washington cannot. Kissinger...
...professed to respect) and political Zionists. Until recently, he made no exception to his ban on Jews entering Saudi Arabia and distributed free copies of that discredited anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion, to Western tourists. Despite his suspicions of radicalism, Faisal backed Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, primarily because they fought for Palestinian Arabs. Not until 1973, when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the October war, did the West fully appreciate the King's influence. The canny Faisal used oil as an economic weapon by imposing an embargo...
...Fatah, the largest Palestinian fedayeen group, claimed responsibility for the attack. That was something of a shock, since Fatah is headed by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who is regarded by many Arabs as a relatively moderate Palestinian leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...seems aimed at blacklisting Jews from many transactions in international finance, causing President Gerald Ford last week sharply to condemn such practices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Last fall UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from some of its activities, and the United Nations General Assembly applauded the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, who frankly spoke at the U.N. of generations of war against Israel, as a legitimate spokesman for Palestinians...