The Philadelphia AFL-CIO several days ago adopted a resolution. endorsing the statement on the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington last month. The statement described as an outrage the UN General Assembly decision to give the PLO observer status and criticized the Assembly for inviting the PLO to participate in the debate on the Palestine issue. The Philadelphia resolution also declared that “the Palestinians never chose this band of murderers (the PLO) whose avowed aim is the destruction of Israel as a sovereign nation to represent them in the first place.”
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