Word: yasser
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More dangerous insofar as progress goes, are the Palestinians on the Arab side and the right-wing opposition in Israel's parliament. Much to the embarrassment of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Egypt at the time, a rump session of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee last week passed a resolution proclaiming "no to American peace and victory for the Palestinian people." A renewed campaign of terrorism could touch off Israeli reprisals, destroying Mrs. Meir's policy of accommodation...
Common Cause. On the other side are those commandos who are prepared to compromise, perhaps by accepting an "interim" Palestinian state. In this category are elements of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian...
...message that it would be helpful if they were willing to negotiate the point. Israel also understood that it has veto power over any other delegations to be seated at the conference table. Thus the Israelis can oppose recognition of a separate Palestinian delegation led by Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, unless it is part of the Jordanian contingent. The Israelis object to Arafat because they accuse him of guiding terrorists like those who carried out last week's attack in Rome (see following story...
...radical of Arab leaders, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr, boycotted the conference because they thought it would soften Arab attitudes toward Israel. Jordan's King Hussein stayed home-although he sent a delegation -because he resented the participation of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Concentrating on the three Ps of peace, petroleum and Palestine, the delegates, in the end, were able to wind up the meeting with the most impressive display of Arab unity in a quarter of a century. Among the major decisions...
Conciliatory Gesture. The Palestinian guerrilla groups, in the meantime, were trying to decide what goals to press for at the eventual conference. Yasser Arafat and the more moderate of the Palestinians favor the return of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan, and would turn this territory into a separate Palestinian state; but they do not call for an end to the state of Israel...