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Should Israel Negotiate With the PLO? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,840 Words, 16,756 Characters |
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Although negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are a necessary step if peace is to be achieved, such talks should only be approached with caution. It is quite possible that the PLO's goal remains the destruction of Israel and that the organization's apparently reasonable current negotiating position is an evolutionary development designed to achieve the same end by means that arouse less suspicion.
Some suspicions were aroused when shortly after his December 1988 speech recognizing UN Resolution 242 and Israel's right to existence - a position PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat confirmed for French President Francois Mitterrand - Arafat denied the interpretation of his words that he had offered Mitterrand. These suspicions were strengthened when PLO br...
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...th the security of Israel and the dignity of the Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. They are short of the maximal claims are inconsistent with at least one of the desiderata. In the absence of negotiations, however, matters will get still worse, and the price paid by human beings for the failure of political leaders to behave with intelligence and compassion will be exacerbated.
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