Word: rabat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anxious for Recognition. Arafat is convinced that his fight-and-talk strategy can succeed and that the P.L.O. this year will add to the impressive string of successes it scored in 1974. At the Rabat summit, Arab heads of state formally endorsed the P.L.O., rather than Jordan's King Hussein, as the sole spokesman for Palestinians, including the 640,000 living on the West Bank. At the United Nations, Arafat was granted the rare privilege of addressing the General Assembly from a podium normally reserved for representatives of established governments. More than that, the General Assembly passed resolutions declaring...
Faisal's political weight in the Arab world has increased as his treasury has grown. The King attends Arab summits like the recent Rabat conference and regularly meets with other Arab leaders. But Faisal apparently says little publicly at these sessions. Saudis insist that he is merely obeying one of his own favorite proverbs: "God gave man two ears and one tongue so we could listen twice as much as we talk." One thing is obvious, however. Faisal's money has tightened ties among Arab nations. At Rabat he led a move in which Saudi Arabia, Kuwait...
They succeeded in throwing the economics of the Western world out of gear; they made their countries the wealthiest on earth; they immensely increased (at Rabat) the threat of war in the Middle East...
More importantly, at Rabat, Egypt joined with the other Arab nations in endorsing the PLO, the blanket Palestinian terrorist organization committed to the liquidation of the Jewish state of Isreal. The PLO's past achievements are all too familiar. The murders of the children in Maalot, the diplomats at Khartoum and the 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games are merely the first that come to mind...
...Despite the Rabat decision about the P.L.O., for Israel it is clear that we will never negotiate with the P.L.O. Therefore, for negotiations to proceed, developments will have to change or the Arabs will have to realize that the West Bank will be completely in our control for a very long time...