Unfortunately, the Bush Administration's efforts to promote negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs lack the ingredients of success the Sadat-Begin talks had.
Second, Arafat rejected the Israeli position that the immigration to Israel of Palestinian Arabs who left Israel during the 1948-49 war and their descendants would be limited to family reunification.
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By accepting the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian Arabs in 1993, both Israel and the U.S. essentially adopted this latter view of the nature of the conflict.
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This bill - which they hope largely to substitute in the today's conference committee for language adopted by the Senate that would provide essentially unconditional assistance - would tie future American foreign aid to the Palestinian Arabs to adherence by Mr. Arafat and his organizations to their obligations.
He said Mr Arafat was the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people and urged Arabs to confront "any attempts to marginalise, weaken or substitute" him.
Over the years, the local media have developed a code for reporting on Arabs - whether Palestinian or Israeli or foreign.
The Palestinian Authority counted some 400, 000 Arabs who live abroad.
He later claimed, however, that he and his compatriots were disarmed and turned back by other Arabs who did not want the help of Palestinian irregulars.
For example, the official said, the Israelis were highlighting the call for leadership change, and the Palestinians and other Arabs were highlighting the call for a creation of a Palestinian state, possibly within three years, something King Abdullah of Jordan was calling for.
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