Word: fahoum
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...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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