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...Rabin last week summoned a Cabinet meeting to review counterterror precautions. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough...
Israeli officials released Capucci, hoping to avoid a diplomatic incident that could damage relations with Christian communities. But continued investigation led the police to conclude that the prelate, an outspoken advocate of the Palestinian cause, was an important liaison between the Fatah command in Beirut and its terrorists inside Israel...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...
...Jordan, where 700,000 Palestinians live fairly peacefully under Israeli occupation. But fedayeen extremists demanded that such a government be a "fighting authority" and that establishing a mini-Palestine be considered only the first step toward recovery of all of old Palestine. As a result, Arafat apparently shifted Fatah to the attack at Nahariya...
...Palestine. The King's statement suddenly put pressure on P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. Up till now, his organization has been split. Some fedayeen organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state...