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...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...
...Fahmy's judgment that the P.L.O. was eager for official talks with U.S. diplomats. This was borne out in Paris, where the P.L.O.'s de facto Foreign Minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, told TIME's Robert Kroon: "We will not object to going to Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation, provided we get separate invitations from the U.S. and Soviet cochairmen." One bar to P.L.O. participation is Washington's insistence that the organization endorse United Nations Resolution 242, which calls for "secure borders" for all nations in the area-an implicit recognition of Israel...
...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...
PERLMUTTER: I am disturbed by reading what [P.L.O. "Foreign Minister"] Farouk Kaddoumi said: "I am sure that we can find a formula for peaceful coexistence, but this Zionist ghetto of Israel must be destroyed." Will you say that the Zionist state of Israel should exist, and you should negotiate with it like Egypt negotiated with it? I would agree with that, if it is constructive...