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...leaders have somewhat moderated their goal of establishing a secular state in Palestine shared by Moslems, Christians and Jews. The P.L.O. chairman is willing to settle for the more immediate-and more attainable -goal of setting up an interim Palestinian "national authority" on the Jordanian West Bank and in Gaza, if and when they are liberated from Israeli control. Some Arabs and U.S. observers argue that the P.L.O.'s willingness to compromise on this key point leaves diplomatic room for an eventual recognition of Israel...
...join Moscow and Damascus in a demand for a resumption of the Geneva conference with the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Rabin expects the Arabs to call for total Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza...
...country faces yet another life-and-death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews...
...foundation of Israel have American Jews been so fearful about the pressures on that country, and the feeling last week was decidedly anxious. "We feel we're back in 1947 with all that that implies," said Rabbi Miller. "It's not just a little piece of territory-Gaza or Nablus -that's involved. What's involved is the future of the Jewish state, its very existence...
...radical, may differ on means, but both men are nonetheless dedicated to the same ultimate goal?the replacement of Israel by a new secular Palestine for Jews and Arabs alike. Arafat is ready to settle for the creation of an interim, more limited state composed of the West Bank, Gaza and the Hamma region?but this would be only a base for continuing a cultural, political and perhaps military competition with