Word: rabat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O., whose panicky leaders last week worried whether they might end up as the losers in the new Middle East diplomatic moves. Although Sadat spoke forthrightly to the Knesset about Palestinian rights to a homeland, never once did he mention the P.L.O.-which Arab leaders, at their 1974 Rabat summit, had designated as the sole legitimate representative ofthe Palestinian people...
Privately, P.L.O. leaders conceded that without the united support of other Arab states, Sadat had the advantage. They feared that the Saudis and others might be prepared to jettison the Rabat agreement if a Geneva peace settlement could be worked out allowing some alternative arrangement involving Palestinians other than the P.L.O. One Fatah commander gloomily concluded that Egypt and Israel "have agreed to get rid of us by any means, without at least giving us back part of our land...
...expelling the guerrillas from Jordan, the plucky little King (or P.L.K., as he is fondly known in some quarters) became an Arab pariah. Hussein was ignored at conferences, slighted when oil subsidies were handed out, finally humiliated at the Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation...
...pendulum swung back last year in Lebanon. Arafat and the Palestinians misjudged their strength and thereupon entered a losing military and political battle with Syria. They now find themselves dependent on moderate governments in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the irrepressible Hussein, who handled his humiliation at Rabat with particular grace, has re-emerged as a force in Arab peace negotiations. Today Hussein sits more securely on his throne, so much so that he has felt strong enough to advocate a Jordanian-Palestinian federation. Arafat is less secure but still a likely choice to head whatever Palestinian state emerges...
Home in Humiliation. Meanwhile the King has regained his former standing with the major Arab countries. Scarcely two years ago, Arab leaders assembled for a summit meeting in Rabat and agreed that the Palestinians, rather than Hussein, should henceforth be responsible for the future of the West Bank and Gaza. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., journeyed from Rabat to New York to be lionized by the U.N. General Assembly. Hussein went home in humiliation...