Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Knesset today that West Bank representatives will not be permitted to go to Amman for a meeting of the Palestine National Council.
Replying to questions by MKs Matityahu Peled and Muhammed Miari of the Progressive List for Peace, Rabin noted that Israel regards the Palestine Liberation Organization as a terrorist organization and therefore cannot permit West Bank residents to attend a meeting designed to further the interests of the PLO.
Meanwhile, the West Bank civil administration withdrew its permission for Raymonda Tawil, a poet and a Palestinian woman activist, to leave the country for a visit to Europe. Tawil, editor and publisher of a nationalist news service and information bulletin, is generally regarded as a spokesperson for the PLO.
She had been granted permission to go to Rome. It was rescinded this morning, a day before her planned departure, without explanation.
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