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Yassir Arafat, chairman of the PLO, realizes he'll never get anything out of Jordan, and instead focuses all his efforts on criticism of Israel. Gone are the days when Arafat told a correspondent, "What you call Jordan is actually Palestine." (1970) Ten years later, he had become savvy enough to define "Palestine" as Israel, or the land "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea." (1980) By stating that they hailed from "occupied Palestine," the Mother Courage speakers seem to have embraced this PLO view that all of Israel is "negotiable...
...Tarr's Message Was Offensive," a letter printed in the Crimson on February 16, presented a benign view of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). According to the writers, "the PLO works to secure and guarantee fundamental human rights for Palestinians, including the Palestinian right to self-determination...It does not deny these same rights to the Israeli people...
...fact, the PLO does seek to deny the Israeli people the right to self-determination, even to the point of destroying the state of Israel. According to the PLO's charter, the Palestine National Covenant, "the partioning of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally null and void." Furthermore, Yassar Arafat, chair of the PLO, has often expressed this viewpoint...
...matter how moderate the PLO may try to appear, its actions indicate its true nature. Arafat's alliance with Saddam Hussein is just the most recent step in the PLO's war against Israel. Joshua S. Kreitzer...
Furthermore, in attributing the Palestinian intifada to the actions of stone-throwing PLO "maniacs," Tarr denies the true popular character of the intifada and delegitimizes the Palestinian nationalist struggle. The demand for human equality and political sovereignty is not limited to an organization. It is, rather, the demand of a nation...