Israeli Pacifist Sees Arafat Again
Israeli pacifist Abie Nathan, who served a four-month jail term in Israel for meeting with Yasser Arafat, said Saturday that he held another meeting with the PLO leader in Tunis on Friday.
He said that he spoke with Arafat for an hour, making “several proposals on what could be done relating to bringing about a climate of peace and reducing some of the misgivings on both sides, to create hope and understanding.”
“I told him there is a big desire, more than ever before, for peace among the people of Israel, and we hope that our leaders have the courage and vision not to let the people of Israel down.”
It was Nathan’s seventh meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman since 1982.
Israel bans contacts between its citizens and members of the organization, which it calls a terrorist group.
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