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...Palestine Liberation Organization, Geula Cohen of the right-wing Tehiya Party greeted the West Germans, who were sitting in the visitors' gallery, by holding up a poster that read BROWN GREENS OUT. The slogan was apparently intended to equate the left-leaning Greens with the Nazi Brown-shirts. Tewfik Toubi, an Arab-Israeli Communist who has been a member of the Knesset since 1949, leaped to his feet and tried to tear the placard from her hands exclaiming, "It's shameful to demonstrate against guests." Cohen's response to Toubi: "You are no more than a guest on sufferance here...
...four were anything but typical Israeli politicians. One of the Knesset members was Charlie Biton, 29, a Sephardic Jew from Morocco, and the other was Tewfik Toubi, 57, an Israeli Arab. The woman was Felicia Langer, an Israeli lawyer who frequently represents West Bank Palestinians in court. All are members of the pro-Moscow Israeli Communist Party, which is known as RAKAH and is part of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. During the 20-minute conversation, Arafat said he was happy to meet "the peace forces of Israel...
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