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VOLUME 9-10: 1984-1988
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397. Foreign Ministry Statement on the PNC Decisions, 15 November 1988.
Israel said that the Algiers declarations were ambiguous and contained double talk. Israel thought that they were aimed at the United States which had just elected George Bush as its next president. The outgoing Reagan Administration thought there were some new and positive elements in the PNC decisions. The State Department thought they were an advance over previous efforts. Text of the Israeli statement follows:
"Once again the organization that claims to represent the Palestinian People proves unable or unwilling to recognize reality. In its new statement, ambiguity and double talk are again employed to obscure its advocacy of violence and [that it] resorts to terrorism and adheres to extreme positions. Hence, any recognition or legitimization of the declarations will not be conducive to peace in the Middle East. No unilateral step can substitute for a negotiated settlement, no gimmick can mask the tragedy inflicted upon the Palestinian People time and again by the absence of reasonable, realistic and peace-seeking leadership. As it continues to shoulder its responsibility for tranquility in the territories, Israel remains committed to the pursuit of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace with all its neighbors, first and foremost Jordan and the Palestinians. Israel's policy remains equally firm in its adherence to an insistence upon U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 as the only commonly accepted basis for peace negotiations." |
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