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The Ultimatum
Israel's message to Yassir Arafat: Change the PLO
covenant calling for Israel's end — or find a new job.
ERIC SILVER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
rime Minister Shimon covenant. They ranged from the
Peres laid it on the line. release of the remaining Pales-
"Yassir Arafat," he insist- tinian security prisoners to Is-
ed, "can't be a member of rael's renunciation of any future
two organizations at the same claims on the West Bank, from
time, one which calls for the de- recognizing a Palestinian state
struction of Israel and another to repudiating the Protocols of
which calls for peace with it. He the Elders of Zion, a notorious
must choose. If he does not have Tsarist forgery still widely dis-
a majority to amend the tributed (and taken seriously) in
covenant, he should quit."
the Arab world.
The Muslim fast month of Ra-
The PNC's acting chairman,
madan ends next week with the Riad Za'nun, threatened not to
three-day Id el Fitr feast, start- convene his council if at least
ing on Feb. 19. Mr. Arafat will no some of these terms were not
longer have any pretext for de- met.
lay.
Palestinians in the street (not
In the second "Oslo" peace to mention the refugee camps)
agreement, negotiated in Taba don't see why they should recog-
last September, he promised that nize Israel, while Israel still dis-
within two months of
convening the new-
ly-elected Palestin-
ian legislature he
would annul the
clauses in the 1964
Palestinian Nation-
al Covenant denying
Jews a right to a
state and pledging to
"destroy the Zionist
and imperial pres-
ence" in the home-
land. The 88
deputies will assem-
ble in Gaza as soon
as they have slept off Yassir Arafat addrewsses residents in Gaza.
the roast lamb.
their
right
to
The Israeli ultimatum pre- putes
sents Mr. Arafat with the first self-determination.
Israel has made it clear that it
major test
of authority since he was elect- will not comply. However flexi-
ed president on Jan. 20. Any ble it has been up to now, the
amendment of the covenant re- Peres goverrunent is not going to
quires a two-thirds majority in buy the same goods twice. Cer-
the larger Palestine National tainly not in the run-up to an
Council, the old parliament-in- election. Palestinian demands
exile, an unwieldy body of some can be brought up in the "final-
488 nominated members (to status" negotiations, due to start
which the 88 will be added).
in May.
Yossi Beilin, who has been in
Unlike the elected legislators,
the PNC is not in Mr. Arafat's on the peace process from the be-
pocket. Most of its members will ginning and is now a member of
be coming in from Damascus and Mr. Peres's Cabinet, is convinced
Amman and Tunis, taking ad- that Mr. Arafat understands
vantage of Mr. Peres's offer to this. "Failure to amend the
open the border even to unre- covenant," he said, "would slow
constructed "terrorists", like down the whole process. I believe
George Habash or Naef Hawat- he will change the covenant."
It looks, though, as if the old
meh, who still oppose the peace
process. They don't have the fox will do it his way. Rather
same stake in what Mr. Arafat than a head-on confrontation
has already achieved as the res- with the PNC, he is expected to
idents of the West Bank and present an entirely new charter
Gaza. They have unfinished to supersede the old covenant. A
new reality, he will argue, re-
business of their own.
Leading Palestinians, in and quires a new manifesto. The
1964 covenant would retain an
out of the autonomous areas,
used the Ramadan lull to float honoured place in the museum
conditions for amending the of the Palestinian struggle, but
would cease to be operative.
Eric Silver is a contributing
This approach would have a
writer to the Jerusalem Report.
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