Word: fahoum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bank and Gaza Strip to attend, only 249 members of the 374-seat council were needed for a quorum. To cobble the necessary numbers, Arafat aides persuaded the deputy speaker to appoint several dozen loyalists temporarily to vacant seats. On the second day the delegates voted to dismiss Khaled Fahoum, the council speaker and an Assad ally, and replace him with Sheik Abdul Hamid al Sa'eh of Jordan...
...Damascus, Khaled Fahoum, chairman of the Palestine National Council, a sort of parliament-in-exile, concluded: "Begin is getting out of Sinai, under U.S. pressure, so he must somehow compensate. But he cannot formally annex the land. If he does that, he must make 1.3 million Arabs citizens of Israel. And that he is not prepared to do, especially when you compare our birth rate to theirs." Other Arabs argued that, if sufficient numbers of Palestinians could be expelled from the West Bank or intimidated into leaving, the birth rate would be irrelevant. After all, the Arab population...
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