Yitzhak Navon, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset, ruled out the possibility of encouraging new Arab leadership in the West Bank as an alternative to the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership of the Palestinians. In an Interview with a Labor Party publication in Jerusalem. Navon, an Arabist and a dove, described as unrealistic the approach that was propagated recently by Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Yigal Allon to try and develop a leadership in the West Bank as a core for Palestinian representation. Navon agreed that there were elements that feared a takeover by Yasir Arafat, but they would not dare oppose him now.
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