Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...representative in Saudi Arabia said, "On no account will the Palestinians accept part of Palestine and call it the Palestinian state, while forfeiting the remaining areas which are called the State of Israel." Arafat keyed in, "The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and all of Palestine--from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea." In another speech, Arafat proclaimed, "We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel...
That the Palestinians will accept a state only as a stage toward the eventual control of Israel has been confirmed by PLO statements made after Arafat's recent initiatives. Arafat's deputy, Saleh' Khalef, recently told a Kuwaiti newspaper, "the establishment of a Palestininan state in any part of Palestine has as its goal the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of Palestine." The chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Sheikh Abdul Hanid el Haya, agreed, "We should take and then demand more...
Voke also faulted local officials for being willing to accept the local aid increase while they are unwilling to fully endorse the governor's tax package--which calls for raising $131 million the rest of this fiscal year and $604 million annually after that...
...They can endorse this money if they want to accept it. I'm just saying, how do you pay for it?" Voke said...
...Phillips University in Enid, Okla. (enrollment: 960), was approached last spring by Kyoto Institute of Technology, which offered $24 million for the entire school. Phillips' president, Robert Peck, refused. "Colleges are not bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...