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...Israel currently sees the PLO as anathema to its security although many reasonable Israelis recognize that some kind of Palestinian automony in the West Bank and Gaza is inevitable, if only for demographic reasons. And the PLO an umbrella organization which encompasses 55 separate branches, seems the most visible and most likely representative of the Palestinian people. But rushing to include the Soviet-backed PLO in bargaining does not immediately ensure a settlement favorable to any party, let along all parties...
...PLO's relations with Arab regimes for example, are not as smooth as they appear on the surface. About 1.3 million Palestinians living in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Israeli territories (according to U.N. estimates) are registered in separate camps. The camps still exist, a PLO official in Damascus told the Associated Press last November because the host Arab countries wanted the Palestinians to live apart. "This is what the (Arab countries) wanted and we were not going against it," the official said...
...PLO receives petrodollar funds from Saudi Arabia. Libya and Kuwait which total about $500 million annually--excluding private subsidies to different PLO factions and military equipment. But that does not erase the fact that Palestinians live in camps or that no Arab country wants PLO influence imported. A PLO representative in the group's New York U.N. Mission, who spoke last week on the condition of anonymity, ingenuously acknowledged that the PLO's relations with Egypt. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Iran are rocky. "We agree on the general end--the establishment of a Palestinian state-but we disagree over...
...Middle East right now, the means are everything. "We refuse to recognize the Zionist entity," the official continued. "There is no legitimacy to the Zionist state. The PLO abides by its covenant statement that the Zionist entity has no right to exist, even though we realize that some future settlement might require harmony. But there can be no harmony with the racist state...
...Zionist entity" racist? "Because," said the official, "it does not recognize the rights of Palestinians or the PLO." What of the PLO convenant's commitment to the destruction of Israel? "That is a legitimate claim...