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Barely had the Amman accord been made public when P.L.O. leaders began issuing reservations. Farouk Kaddoumi, an Arafat confidant, insisted on the creation of a separate Palestinian state. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, Arafat's spokesman, demanded that a unified Arab delegation, rather than simply a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team, negotiate with Israel. In a radio interview, Arafat said he appreciated Mubarak's efforts, but insisted on an international peace conference rather than bilateral talks with Israel...
...settlement gave new impetus to a P.L.O. departure. For the first time, the Arab world acknowledged its "collective responsibility," as one U.S. diplomat in Washington put it, to ensure the evacuation of the Palestinians from Beirut. The key passage in the document, which was signed by Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, stated: "The Palestine Liberation Organization declares its decision to transfer its armed forces from Beirut and define guarantees for this move, along with guarantees to be worked out between the P.L.O. and the Lebanese government for the security of the Palestinian refugees." The Arab...
...proposal evoked anger among Israeli officials. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, who is also Jerusalem's chief negotiator at the stalled talks on Palestinian autonomy, called it "a complete contradiction to the spirit of Camp David." For that matter, the P.L.O. evinced no excitement about the idea. Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s unofficial foreign minister, called the time "inopportune" for such a government, adding that "we do not place any trust in Sadat." American analysts interpreted Sadat's proposal as an attempt "at keeping all the options open" that offered little chance of immediate success...
...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...