- Title: ISRAEL: ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE COUNCIL DEFENDS ITS MEETING WITH YASSER ARAFAT
- Date: 26th January 1983
- Summary: 1. SCU Sheli party leader Uri Avneri speaking (SOT) 0.20 2. SV INTERIOR Reporters (4 shots) with Avneri speaking (SOT) 0.25 3. SCU Israeli former Director General of fiance Ministry Yaacov Arnon speaking (SOT) 0.58 TRANSCRIPTS: SEQUENCE 1-2: AVNERI: "The situation in the Middle East was reviewed in depth as well as the ways for common action for permanent and just
- Embargoed: 10th February 1983 12:00
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- Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
- Country: Israel
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA370M0I2ADD2B2ZXZVHN6X2HJ
- Story Text: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
The Israeli government seems to set to enact forbidding Israeli citizens from making contact with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told the Knesset (parliament) on January 26 there was no alternative to the legislation, following a recent meeting in Tunis between Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and three Israeli members of the leftist group, the Council for Israeli-Palestinian peace. At a news conference in Tel Aviv the previous day, the three council representatives defended their action. Sheli Party leader Uri Avneri said the situation in the Middle East was reviewed in depth with Yasser Arafat and the PLO chairman had expressed appreciation for the role of Israeli peace forces. Yaacov Arnon, the former Director-General of Israel's Finance Ministry, claimed that in 1976 Defence Minister Ariel Sharon asked him to propose a meeting with PLO. He said Mr. sharon wanted to discuss with Chairman Arafat the possibility of Israeli help in the take-over of Jordan and the establishment of a PLO government in Amman.
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