A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization believes the emergence of a Palestinian state will lead to the disintegration of Israel.
The PLO has, therefore, opted for moderation to achieve its own state, Dr. Assad Abdel Rahman, a member of the PLO Executive Council, wrote last week in Shu’un Falestiniya, a PLO monthly published in Beirut.
According to Rahman, the events since the Palestine National Council agreed to accept Israel’s existence at its November 1988 meeting in Algiers do not signify a change of the PLO’s goal of a state, but only of the means to reach it.
“This Palestinian state which is established on part of the homeland will be established on all of the homeland,” he wrote.
According to Rahman, “the Arab-Palestinian political change of direction,” is “derived from the Arab belief that peace” will lead to creation of “a sovereign Palestinian state.”
That state will be able, “if even gradually, to cause the disintegration of the Zionist-Jewish framework of the State of Israel,” Rahman wrote.
A Palestinian state will “ensure the destruction of the political framework of the Zionist enterprise” and make Israelis adjust “to a stronger, wider developing oriental Arab society,” he added.
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