Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Israeli policy makers are often faced with a choice between evils. They have felt that the evils of a military occupation (and it is necessarily evil, despite everything Israel has done to soften it) are preferable to the evils of what a high-ranking member of the PLO introduced within tht past decade as a "policy of stages" toward the destruction of Israel...
...PLO changed? Possibly. But their saying so is not enough to convince me. Not while the killing goes on. Not while demonstrators at Harvard last week who described themselves as PLO supporters could chant "Israel no, Palestine Yes!" until one student prevailed upon them to find a less inflammatory (perhaps less honest) slogan...
...legal military authority since 1967 is forbidden from changing their status. Yet under Israel's control, the Palestinians enjoy greater social, economic and educational standing than in any part of the Arab world; though unfortunately, Israeli attempts to improve housing conditions in the territories have been blocked by the PLO, which values the refugee camps as a symbol of its cause...
Speaking before an audience of about 450 people, Prince Al Hassan bin Talal called on the U.S. to develop "practical approaches" to the Middle East conflict that would recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as a legitimate representative of Palestinians...
...Hassan said that prerequisites for formal talks include the participation of Palestinians, either through the PLO or Jordan, as well as the with drawal of Israel from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Only these measures can bring about "the exercise of the right to national self-determination," Al Hassan said...