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Facing the facts in the Middle East is often a game of saving face. So how to get around this conundrum: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insists that he will not sit at a negotiating table that includes a Palestinian representative from East Jerusalem; Faisal al-Husseini, a leading Palestinian activist and Jerusalemite, insists that any Palestinian delegation must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini...
...time the talk got around to specifics, Baker's hosts retreated to their usual dug-in positions. For example, 10 Palestinian nationalist leaders from the occupied territories insisted to Baker that the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Israel spurns as a terrorist gang, must remain their sole representative. Said Faisal Husseini, the most prominent Palestinian leader in Jerusalem: "We told him we are here because ((P.L.O. Chairman)) Yasser Arafat told us to be here...
Some Palestinians reacted with joy to the death of "someone who believed that all non-Jews were animals," as a spokesman for the extremist group Islamic Jihad put it. But they also feared reprisals from Kahane followers. Faisal Husseini, one of the most prominent Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem, warned that "the Kach supporters represent a real danger to the life of every Arab...
...violence quickly spread, Defense Minister Moshe Arens barred all 1.7 million Palestinians from entering Israel. Arens had intended to enforce calm and appease public opinion, but he also threw Israel's division along the pre- 1967 borders into sharp relief. Faisal Husseini, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian leader, even welcomed the ban as "the first step toward independence." In Jerusalem, Israel's dream of peaceful coexistence was refuted by the stifling presence of 2,000 police...
While stability may be in the offing for Lebanon, independence remains elusive, a point Lebanese authorities have not been ashamed to acknowledge. Said Hussein al-Husseini, the speaker of parliament: "We need Syria again in the next stages to extend legal authority and disarm the militias...