Word: palestinians
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Hussein made the announcement in an emotional 3 1/2-hour speech over Jordanian television, addressed to 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as to his own 2.8 million subjects. The King thus broke off a year-old partnership with Arafat in which the two Arab leaders had sought ways to resolve the Palestinian problem through negotiations with Israel. Said the weary Hussein: "Yes, brothers and sisters, we have gone through a grueling year of intensive effort and faced a host of obstacles, in many instances exceeding the limits of our endurance...
...resolutions. Accordingly, an angry Hussein, who thought he had previously reached an agreement with Arafat, announced that he was unable to continue to work with the P.L.O. leaders "until such time as their word becomes their bond, characterized by commitment, credibility and constancy." The sympathies of West Bank Palestinians were torn, as always, between Hussein and the P.L.O. Some hoped, as did the Israelis, that Hussein might attempt another initiative in league with the local leadership of the occupied territories. But Hussein gave every indication last week that he would still abide by the Arab states' Rabat resolution...
Near dawn on Jan. 30, explosions rocked the Rodriguez Shipyards at Messina, Sicily. When the smoke cleared, two Palestinian-owned hydrofoil ferries were at the bottom of the harbor. Because the operator of the hydrofoils is known to be a supporter of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, police at first theorized that the sabotage was the work of an anti-Arafat group. No such luck. Israeli undercover agents made it known last week that they were responsible for the blasts...
Israel, it seems, was convinced that the hydrofoils, each with a capacity of 150 passengers, had been sent to Messina to be fitted with guns and armor plating so they could be used to ferry Fatah guerrillas into the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, from which they were driven by Israeli troops in 1982. The plan, say the Israelis, was for Fatah fighters to make a dash for the Lebanese coast from Cyprus on the high-speed hydrofoils under cover of night. And how did the Israeli spooks who foiled the plan smuggle bombs into Italy? "You just come...
Hussien repeated his acceptance of the 1974 Arab summit conference designation of the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...