Israel must negotiate with Yasser Arafat not because he is a “partner for peace,” but simply because he is the leader of the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told British Jewish leaders during a visit to London. “The alternative,” Israel’s foreign minister said, “is to speak with nobody.”
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