Word: yasser
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...Palestinians' disarray is not entirely their own doing. At Israel's insistence, only residents of the territories who are not connected with the Palestine Liberation Organization will formally participate in negotiations. However, their moves are determined by the P.L.O., whose leadership is scattered outside the occupied lands. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat keeps in constant telephone contact with key Palestinians in the territories...
Israel refuses to negotiate with him, and the U.S. pretends he does not exist, yet Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat makes his views known constantly to the diplomatic world via fax, cordless telephone and intermediaries. In a 90-minute interview with TIME correspondents Dean Fischer and William Dowell, Arafat expressed considerable bitterness toward the U.S., while stressing his own indispensability to Middle East peace. Excerpts...
Even Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat is reconciled. He is being treated officially as a nonperson by both Israel and the U.S., and the P.L.O. will be pointedly excluded from participating. Nonetheless, in an interview with TIME conducted last week at one of his safe houses in Tunisia, Arafat was specifically asked whether Baker was likely to succeed in setting up the conference. His reply: "Yes. According to a message I just received from Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin after his meeting with Mr. Baker, it will be at the end of this month." Moreover, Arafat made it clear...
Nonetheless, the conference results brighten the prospects for an October peace conference. But the Palestinians were not celebrating. A frustrated Yasser Arafat called his job as P.L.O. chief "a catastrophe" and dramatically pleaded to step down. Said Yasser Abd Rabbo of the P.L.O. executive committee: "We are between the options of suicide and suicide...
...bringing Israel to the table. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria had already accepted Israel's long-standing demand for bilateral talks. But Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had one last concern: the composition of the Palestinian delegation to the meetings. Israel rejects any participation in the talks by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. It also opposes the inclusion of any resident of East Jerusalem, a step that in Shamir's view might imply that the city's status as Israel's capital is open to negotiation...