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...scheduled to be held in 25 communities on April 12 may be canceled. Even some Israelis are becoming critical of Jerusalem's sometimes insensitive administration of the West Bank communities. Writing in the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, Zvi Al Peleg, former occupation commander of Nablus and the Gaza Strip, noted: "The stones thrown will not drive Israel out of the area. But perhaps they will shatter some illusions about our being the wisest and best conquerors in history...
SCHECTER: What would happen in an election among the Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza and Jordan today...
...free plebiscite to see what the Palestinians want. Obviously, the Israeli government would not allow that. Dr. Perlmutter is talking about municipal elections. Of course the Palestinians have a right to run their towns. But if you would have a free plebiscite on the West Bank and in Gaza, the Palestinians would support the P.L.O. They would say they want to be free to run their own affairs, and would want to have a right to return to their homes in Israel proper...
HUSSAINI: I think the P.L.O. has laid down this principle in its 1973 National Council meeting, that in any territory that Israel evacuates-meaning the West Bank and Gaza-the P.L.O. will establish national authority. But that is based on a big "if," because what we see in fact is an Israeli policy of building new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...
...want Israel to leave the West Bank and Gaza so that my people would become free and could determine their own destiny, and, of course, the P.L.O. would be willing to participate in peace efforts toward that...