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...major problem with a Geneva conference: how to deal with Palestinian representation. Rabin reiterated last week that Israel would accept Palestinians as part of a Jordanian delegation (see box, next page) but would refuse to deal directly with the hated Palestine Liberation Organization. "We know what the [P.L.O.] objective is," he said. "It is written large into the Palestinian Covenant, which is their binding constitution. Every paragraph of it spits out the venom calling for Israel's destruction." Because of the U.S. Jewish lobby's influence in the elections, Ford and Kissinger are unlikely to put strong pressure...
...country into two-one Arab state, one Jewish state. It was the Arab countries that attacked Israel, and it is the Arab countries that are responsible for the expulsion of the Palestinians. Between 1951 and 1967, most of the Palestinians that Mr. Hussaini is talking about were under Jordanian rule. I am in favor of a Palestine-Jordan solution. [But] as an Israeli who recognizes that there is a nationalist movement in Palestine, I would be willing to say the P.L.O. probably is the only group that represents real Palestinian nationalism. [Nonetheless] that does not mean that a Palestinian state...
PERLMUTTER: Israel is preparing for elections in March, [which] I think is a first step toward settlement. You know, the people on the West Bank can participate in Jordanian elections. Have you heard of any other occupied people who vote in elections for a state that is an avowed enemy of Israel like Jordan...
Relations with Jordan's King Hussein remain icy. Expelled from that country after the "Black September" of 1970, the P.L.O. has insisted that ties with Amman can improve only if the fedayeen once again are allowed to use Jordanian territory as bases from which to strike at Israel. Hussein, who vividly remembers that the guerrillas tried to overthrow his regime, has answered with a flat...
...PALESTINIAN SOLUTION. We took the West Bank from the Kingdom of Jordan in 1967 as the result of a successful counterattack against the Jordanian forces. What is now known as the Kingdom of Jordan is part and parcel of the historic land of Israel, or Palestine, and the British mandate applied to both banks [of the Jordan River]. It is more than two-thirds of the whole territory of historic Palestine. The ethnic group known today as Palestinian Arabs is divided between the East and West Banks. All the inhabitants of Jordan are Palestinians. If Jordan is courageous enough...