Word: plo
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...case in point, one might take Yassar Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Every month some newspaper or semi-intellectual magazine will publish an article which purports to demonstrate, by close textual analysis, and by supplying what is left out but supposedly implicit, that the PLO has decided to recognize Israel's right to exist. This method of studying international developments is not entirely without validity, and in the case of the PLO is even necessary, since it is not particularly likely that Arafat will, in the near future, issue a point-by-point peace proposal. But code deciphering...
PERHAPS THE MOST interesting and provocative points in the entire plan concern the Palestinians. Hoffmann calls for self-determination for Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, and says that Israel should be prepared to negotiate withdrawal from the West Bank with the PLO and thereby obtain de facto recognition. His notion, though somewhat ambiguous in the article, is for a Palestinian state on the West Bank, perhaps in Gaza. Thus he wants Israel to relinquish territory to the PLO for the creation of a Palestinian State, but does not demand that such a state, at the outset, recognize...
...recognize Israel's right to exist would seem dangerous folly. But Hoffmann is suggesting such a development only in the context of a general settlement. In short, if Syria and Egypt recognize Israel, if the United States and the Soviet Union are joint guarantors of Israel's security, the PLO refusal to extend Israel recognition becomes irrelevant. Palestinian spokesmen themselves have acknowledged this point. In praising the Hoffmann plan earlier this week. M.T. Mehdhi, the head of the pro-PLO American Arab Action Committee in New York said. "With the establishment of such a state on the West Bank...
...Hoffmann's major points, which he emphasized in his interview with the Crimson, is that he is not suggesting that Israel withdraw to the pre-june 5, 1967 boundaries and then see what happens. He is suggesting that Israel propose a withdrawal, agree to deal with the PLO, and come to some sort of dual capital agreement concerning Jerusalem, only if the Arab states, particularly Egypt and Syria, agree to the various security guarantees and to recognize Israel. One of his most compelling points is that "a bold Israeli initiative would restore Israeli diplomatic position, and make it far more...
...opposes the Kissinger step-by-step approach resenting the fact that it may be frozen out of any role in the eventual peace settlement. And it has gone out of its way to sabotage the disengagement talks, even to the point of encouraging an alliance between Syria and the PLO in case of a separate Egyptian-Israeli agreement. Clearly step-by-step would be nullified if Egypt and the Soviet Union were once again to establish close ties...