Labor Party leader Shimon Peres has criticised two fellow members of the Socialist International. Addressing party activists here yesterday he castigated both Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson for recent remarks about the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Peres said that even if Kreisky was correct in saying the terrorists who attacked a synagogue in Vienna last Saturday did not belong to the mainline Al Fatah wing of the PLO, it proved that even negotiations with the PLO would not stop dissident elements from continuing to attack Israel and Israelis to achieve their objective of destroying Israel.
Peres also said he found it unbelievable for any civilized person to compare the PLO to the French underground resistance movement during World War II, as Cheysson did. He noted that the Nazis had imprisoned Frenchmen, also, during the war. But the PLO was a murderous organization which did not warrant the title of “the resistance movement against oppression.”
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