Israel Scorns PLO’s Call for Own State
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JERUSALEM — An Israeli spokesman Monday scorned a Palestine Liberation Organization decision to declare an independent state.
PLO leaders meeting in Tunisia decided to recommend that the movement’s parliament-in-exile proclaim a state based on a 1947 U.N. resolution partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
“They can declare whatever they like. It won’t change anything in our attitude towards a terrorist organization whose ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel,” said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s media adviser, Avi Pazner.
“We expect nothing from the PLO. We don’t ask anything, and we won’t give them anything,” he said.
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