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...good deal more assured today than it was in 1973, this does not justify Carter's tendency to belittle Israeli fears about the ultimate aims of its neighbors. For example, neither he nor the academics (including Harvard Government Professor Nadav Safran) who helped him research the book call Yasir Arafat to account for his statement to Carter that "the PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel." A quick scan of the organization's charter, which rejects the notion that a Palestinian state can coexist with a Jewish one, would have refused this statement in spirit, if not in letter...
Similarly, would it be too much to ask that Yasir Arafat, as the self-proclaimed prophet and dictator of the Palestinian movement, take responsibility for Sartawi's murder--or, for that matter, for the slaughter of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972? Should Arafat be made to answer for the lives of innocent civilians he expended as convenient air cover during the battle of Beirut, by cunningly hiding his men among them in hospitals and apartment buildings? Unfortunately, as an unclected leader. Arafat is free to do as the pleases. But if the PLO continues to claim sole authority...
...Chairman Yasir Arafat, living in the dream world that Sartawi disdained, deserves much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every...
...Yasir Arafat had the opportunity last week to dissociate himself from the mafioso style of politics that has long characterized inner PLO circles. Instead, speaking to reporters in North Yemen, the guerrilla chieftain, in an unfounded and preposterous charge, blamed Israeli agents for the Sartawi assassination. Despite such consistently irresponsible behavior, a number of European governments--Greece and Austria among-them--have established close relationships with PLO representatives. The PLO, they argue, should be welcomed into the diplomatic community by both the United States and Israel as the legitimate voice for Palestinian national aspirations...
...majority's position rightly condemns Prime Minister Begin for his self-serving reinterpretations of the accord; but it does not parallely criticize Yasir Arafat's vows of accelerated violence, and Syrian Premier's Hafez Al-Assad's rejection of the accord on its face. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Syria and the P L O to lay down their arms so suddenly. But it is equally unrealistic to ask Israel immediately to grant nation status to the West Bank, when some Palestinian leaders still seek the destruction of Israel...