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Arafat and other PLO leaders consider the independence declaration a historic step toward creation of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza. The council meeting is called the "Intefadeh" session after the 11-month-old uprising among the 1.5 million Palestinians of the occupied lands...
Another resolution on the docket would empower the PLO's 15-man Executive Committee and the Central Council, a 70-member senate-like body in the Palestine National Council, to form a provisional government later...
Palestinian officials say that such a government in the territories would not replace the PLO, which Arab summits have declared the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, but would act as one of its institutions...
...central aim of the new strategy is to improve the PLO's image in the West and convert sympathy for the Palestinian rebellion into political gain...
Until now the PLO has rejected the resolution as the basis for peace, arguing that it treats the Palestinians only as a refugee problem and ignores their quest for self-determination and a homeland...