Rabin defends plan to return Palestinians

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Palestinians that it is time to move They urged Arab countries not two decades, most of which were to let the deportations get in the on, or "it could be a fight on the dominated by the hawkish Likud Asserts right to ARAFAT REACTION Security Council front and on the way of resuming the stalled MidParty, had been bolder than his Yasser Arafat, chairman of the CNN front." when it came to die East peace talks. future deportations Palestine Liberation OrganizaBut with the deportees still exiling PalestiniNY Times News Service tion, Wednesday rejected israel's ans deemed to The peace talks are supposed to camped on a snow-covered hillside JERUSALEM agreement to return some Palesresume next week, with multilatbe security in southern Lebanon, where they Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin tinian deportees and shorten the threats. eral discussions on issues affectsay they will not budge until all are told Parliament on Wednesday that exile of others. taken back, the Israelis acknowl"I believe this ing the entire region, and contindecision was a Arafat condemned the move his agreement with the United ue with direct bilateral negotiations edge that their troubles remain an as an attempt to "go around" States to bring back a quarter of correct one. between Israel and delegations repvery much alive. the 400 Palestinians banished to United Nations Security Council exceptional deciThey express confidence that resenting the Palestinians, Syria, Resolution 799, which calls for Lebanon had preserved his right to Jordan and Lebanon. they are safe from U.N. sanctions.

RABIN. the immediate return of the deport hundreds more people in last 20 years no deborees But they add that they nonethethe future Heckled. government in But since the expulsions, Palesless risk a new condemnation from Israel dared "The principle of our ability to Arafat accused the United the Security Council for violating tinian delegates have said they will remove for a limited time hundreds take," he said in remarks that were Nations of applying a "double resolution mid-December not take part, and question marks of inciters, leaders, organizers standard" in its dealings with the interrupted by heckling from both surround the Arab countries. instructing Israel to return all the remains," he said, replying to harsh Arabs in Israel. the right and left. exiles.

Israeli officials said later that the "The only one who has the criticism that he had surrendered Foreign Minister Shimon Peres And they still must deal with the to Washington this week by acceptprime minister's declaration of his ability to say no to the United said Wednesday that he thought diplomatic and public-relations ing the swift return of 100 deporright to expel still more people did Nations resolutions without being Syria was more interested in damage caused by daily televised tees to the occupied territories. not mean he actually planned to do afraid of any punishment or resuming the talks than in dwelling images of Palestinians in tents.

In a vigorous defense of both the sanctions is the naughty baby." on the deportees, Islamic fundademanding to go home. To the contrary, senior officials expulsions and the compromise. N.Y.

Times News Service mentalists whom the Arab negoSo it could be, one official said, turned their attention to putting the the Labor prime minister asserted that the world will wearily tell the seven-week-old crisis behind them. tiators also regard as threats. that no government over the last

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"Rabin defends plan to return Palestinians," The Daily Press, 4 February 1993. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1993-024. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1993-024