March 25, 1977 (vol. 87, iss. 138) • Page Image 4
… Arab states and the superpowers will get out of Geneva," a Palestinian student at Bethlehem University recently said. "But what's in it for us?" The Palestinians - who see themselves as the greatest…
… response to criticisms of its treatment of the Pal- estinians. It is that the Arabs have treated the Palestinians even worse. There 'are no mass graves of slaughtered Palestinians in the Gaza, as in Beirut…
…- ceded in his report critical of the Palestinians, "the lack of tolerance shown by the middle-class Jew toward the Arab citi-. zen ... can amount to real hatred." But that hatred is muted in contrast to…
…-, ecutive Committee Secretary-General Mohammed Nashashibi said, "There are two kinds of Palestinians, those ruled by Israel and those ruled by Arabs. Why do you think we (the PLO) get such support from both…
… strategist and one of the founders of Fateh, the Palestine National Liberation Move- ment. "The struggle against the Israelis gets the most atten- tion. But the struggle for Arab recognition of our rights has…
… been much more costly." . PLO officials in Beirut say twice as many Palestinians have been killed by Arabs as by Israelis since their struggle began. And AI-Wazi points out that the first casualty of the…
… Palestinians as the beginning of their struggle for emancipation. Arab opposition to independent Palestinian action has had another important effect. "Israel destroyed our national rights," one PLO official said…
… disenchantment with the Arab states. Yet Lebanon does not appear to have been as devastating a$ Black September. "The Palestinians still have a force in being," one high- ranking U.S. diplomat recently observed…
… certainly without liking it very much, both Israel and the Arabs long have found themselves drifting toward accord on the Pales- tinian problem, and toward similar policies of repression against the…
… which they have little remaining sympathy and even less national interest. Yet Israel continues to predicate its security requirements on the assumption that it faces a unitary Arab menance, not separate…










