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...those who waited for Arafat to offer some new accommodation toward negotiation, the P.L.O. leader's "most generous solution" was a disappointment. Echoing many previous public statements, Arafat proposed to create a new secular democratic state of Palestine in which Christians, Jews and Moslems could live together in peace. That proposal implicitly requires the dissolution of Israel, which goes against a long series of United Nations and other international affirmations...
Habash, the most intellectual of the commando leaders, feels that revolutionary violence is the only means of achieving the P.L.O.'s goal of a new secular, democratic Palestine to replace Israel. Suspecting that Arafat was getting soft on the enemy, Habash recently pulled the P.F.L.P. out of the P.L.O.'s executive committee (many Palestinians are still trying to get him back in). Prior to the Rabat summit, he warned against the dangers of "capitulating" to the U.S. and Israel on the Palestine issue, and threatened to set up a new radical liberation group that would oppose the P.L.O. Habash...
...course, is wholly committed to its self-preservation as a predominantly Jewish state on the shores of the Mediterranean. Arafat, the moderate, and Habash, the radical, may differ on means, but both men are nonetheless dedicated to the same ultimate goal?the replacement of Israel by a new secular Palestine for Jews and Arabs alike. Arafat is ready to settle for the creation of an interim, more limited state composed of the West Bank, Gaza and the Hamma region?but this would be only a base for continuing a cultural, political and perhaps military competition with
...Mehdi, head of a the American-Arab Action Committee, a New-York-based PLO support-organization, told the demonstrators. "We are opposed to the existence of a Jewish state in Palestine, just as we are opposed to any non-secular state in that area...
CHRISTMAS EVE MASS. Burlesquing the season's secular spirit, a procession of toys emerges from the sacristy; Teddy bears, dolls and soldiers move up the center aisle. Right in the middle of it all, decked out in spangles and waving a glowing magic wand, is the Blue Angel -Father Quinlan, of course. Santa Claus (an assistant priest) joins the march as it heads back toward the altar. Quinlan ducks out, then reappears in festive liturgical vestments, mercifully putting Christ back into Christmas...