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...division is the question of whether the Geneva conference will result in the formation of a Palestinian state, composed of some land now occupied by Israel: the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region near Lake Tiberias. Opposing that plan are the hard-line commando elements, who will accept nothing less than the dissolution of Israel and the creation of a secular state that would cover all of pre-1947 Palestine. Some of them are talking of Viet Nam-style guerrilla action until that end is achieved. In this camp is George Habash...
...life time." Even the extremists realize that the people most directly concerned are those who live on the West Bank and those who have lived for up to 25 years in squalid refugee camps. These Palestinians, some 2,000,000 in all, may decide to bypass the commando organizations and accept the offer of a Palestinian state. Jordan's King Hussein has offered to hold a plebiscite in the West Bank on the future political status of the Palestinians. "These are the people who want the Israeli boots out," says a P.L.O. source. "And if they...
Dirty Action. Whatever faction of Black September or other Palestinian extremist group had committed the atrocities at Rome and Athens, it could hardly have anticipated the wave of shock and anger that erupted from Arab capitals. Even leaders of the major Palestinian commando organizations chimed in; one branded the killings a "dirty action." Many leaders were distressed that the attack damaged the image of the Arabs at a time when their cause was gaining international sympathy. As Cairo's influential Al-Ahram noted, it was difficult "to imagine any benefit from an operation that makes the people of Europe...
While Egypt and Syria settled on a negotiating stance, the Palestinian commando movement struggled to find a position that would be acceptable to its many factions. The Palestinians have not been officially invited to participate in the talks at Geneva. But, as one Arab observer put it, that did not stop them from "fighting over the bearskin before the bear is caught...
...commando movement's problems is that its strength on the West Bank is unknown, or at least unproved. Probably for that reason, a rash of terrorist incidents broke out there last week. One grenade landed in the Jeep of the military governor of Nablus, Colonel Eliezer Segev, wounding him seriously; the Israelis accordingly imposed a curfew on the town of Nablus for the first time in four years. To the north near the town of Jenin, Israeli troops demolished five houses belonging to Arabs suspected of sabotage...