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Israel, for the moment, returns the snub. Taking over as Premier last week, Rabin announced his willingness to negotiate with all Arabs-except Palestinian terrorists. The future of the West Bank, he said, should be decided in consultation with Jordan's King Hussein, as head of a Jordanian-Palestinian state. Rabin's Cabinet won approval in the Knesset by a narrow 61-51 vote, with five abstentions and three absentees; Israeli political observers predicted that the new Premier will have to strengthen his own government before he can undertake negotiations with any of Israel's neighbors...
...none rank it as highly. After all, denial of the right to live in a particular place--even a symbolically important place--does not preclude living freely in many other places--as numerous Palestinians have done, and as all would have been allowed to do but for the Jordanian annexation of the inchoate Palestinian state...
...apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese and Jordanian passports. He and four accomplices arrested later in Rome were suspected of planning to attack an El Al jetliner as it flew low near the airport...
...they were willing to negotiate the point. Israel also understood that it has veto power over any other delegations to be seated at the conference table. Thus the Israelis can oppose recognition of a separate Palestinian delegation led by Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, unless it is part of the Jordanian contingent. The Israelis object to Arafat because they accuse him of guiding terrorists like those who carried out last week's attack in Rome (see following story...
...Arafat, as leader of the multigroup Palestine Liberation Organization, was designated "sole" representative of the Palestinians at the upcoming Geneva conference, despite Jordanian protests. Thus the eventual lineup of Arabs at the peace table will include Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. The list is bound to irritate both King Hussein and Israeli Premier Golda Meir. "He doesn't represent a country," she said of Arafat last week. "I don't know how you negotiate with somebody who tells you that you are doomed...