Word: kaddoumi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab states were as divided as ever. The Palestine Liberation Organization's de facto foreign minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, for instance, taunted the Saudis for their continued financial backing of Egypt. Unless the Arabs took joint action, he declared, "the Israelis will not stop until they have reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against...
...There are two initial phases to our return," said Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the PLO political department, last year. "The first phase to the 1967 lines, and the second to the 1948 lines...the third stage is democratic state of Palestine [that is, the destruction of Israel]. So we are fighting for these three stages...
...private meetings with reporters and diplomats in New York, Farouk Kaddoumi, the de facto foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has hinted strongly that his organization is prepared to recognize Israel's right to exist under certain conditions. But back in Beirut, Yasser Arafat's political adviser, Hani Hassan, still insists that "our response must be: no recognition of the state of Israel. Anyone who reconciles himself with the enemy and recognizes the enemy will be eliminated." This constant inconsistency has led U.S. diplomats to adopt what one jokingly calls the five-day rule: "Any P.L.O. statement...
...P.L.O. refuses to do this without concomitant recognition from Israel, but its leaders have suddenly seemed to be amenable to compromises. Farouk Kaddoumi, who acts as the organization's foreign minister, complained predictably that "our rights are fundamental, not negotiable." But he also indicated, for the first time, some give on the question of Palestinian representation at Geneva in the U.A.D...
...eliminate this obstacle, Rumania's U.N. delegation-with Arab backing-will propose a resolution in the General Assembly calling for a Palestinian homeland. Kaddoumi stressed repeatedly to Kroon that the resolution would not "modify or replace" Resolution 242. Asked if the P.L.O. demand for an independent Palestinian state meant all of Israel, Kaddoumi replied: "No, a portion. We would settle for the West Bank and Gaza." The Israelis, however, have made it clear that they will not surrender any occupied territory to the P.L.O...