The Times · 18 January 1989
CP-1989-001
Arafat
Arafat rejects Israeli election idea
Transcribed from the clipping
“Making his point: PLO leader Yasser Arafat shows the V-sign during his press conference in Helsinki Tuesday. Arafat rejected an Israeli idea of holding Palestinian elections in occupied territories.” Associated Press.
Context added by this archive
A month after the PLO recognized Israel at Geneva. The caption calls the territories occupied without quotation marks and without attribution, in the paper’s own voice — which is the thing this archive tracks across the dateline fold. The photograph is of a man making a V-sign; the caption says he is making his point.
Cite this item
"Arafat," The Times, 18 January 1989. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1989-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1989-001
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