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...especially Middle Eastern politicians -- are wont to do, Shamir was fudging the facts. Jamil Tarifi, a West Bank lawyer associated with the P.L.O., confirmed the talks and implied that he would report on the meeting to P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat. By meeting with Tarifi, insisted Labor Party official Yossi Beilin, Shamir made the P.L.O. leader implicitly part of the bargaining process. Said Beilin: "That there is negotiation with the P.L.O. is quite clear...
...safer alternative for Shamir might be to lure Labor into a broad coalition. But the party would be a junior partner, and the opening round of talks proved humiliating for its leader, Shimon Peres. "It's a joke," said Labor Party member Yossi Beilin. "They need us as a fig leaf, and their demands are impossible...
...deeply frightened about the implications of all this, and of such acts as teachers showing hatred of one another." The children most in need of schooling are the most affected, noted Harry Beilin, a professor of education and psychology at the City University of New York. He said: "The long-term effect of the strike is an undermining of the ability to respect authority." For those in high school, particularly students who hope to go to college, a protracted strike could be catastrophic...