The Idaho Statesman · 18 December 1988
CP-1988-103
U.S., PLO talks improve chance for Palestinian state
By Barry Schweid, The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Establishment of a Palestinian state is more possible now that the United States is talking to the PLO and inching toward support of a seat for Yasser Arafat’s organization in Mideast peace talks. For several reasons, the PLO chairman is being vague about where the state would be set up.
Arafat said in Geneva his state would exist alongside Israel, but he has not said whether the Palestine he envisions would cut deeper into the Jewish state. Clearly, he wants to take control of the West Bank and Gaza, held by Israel since 1967 and the home of 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs and 60,000 Jews. And without question he wants part of Jerusalem, the Israeli capital.
But what about a corridor to the Mediterranean Sea? Or other land?
Cite this clipping
"U.S., PLO talks improve chance for Palestinian state," The Idaho Statesman, 18 December 1988, p. 4F. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-103. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-103
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