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Go Ahead With Accord, Arafat Urges Israel : Mideast: PLO leader visits London to press pullout, seek support for Palestinian areas.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, pleaded with Israel here Wednesday to implement the accord to remove Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Traveling in Europe to lobby for support for the new Palestinian area in Gaza and Jericho, Arafat met Prime Minister John Major and other British political and religious leaders. At a news conference, Arafat insisted that his agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin did not constitute a “sellout” of the Palestinian or Arab cause.

“I haven’t given up my dream,” he said when questioned as to whether accepting limited Palestinian self-rule was damaging to his cause. “I wish that there could be a unified state. But love cannot be one-sided.”

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He said he had only reluctantly agreed to a 10-day delay in the Israeli troop withdrawal, which was to have started last Monday. Arafat said the delay was necessary for the Israelis but should not serve as a precedent. He said he will meet Rabin in Cairo later this month to confirm the withdrawal and confront “all the problems which have arisen.”

“I hope the 10 days are going to be enough so that afterward we may be capable of implementing the agreement--implementing it very carefully and very honestly. . . , “ he said.

Arafat was greeted here by Muslim protesters who chanted outside his news conference “Arafat traitor!” and “God is great!”

While Judge Israel Finestein, president of the Board of British Jews, the representative body of the community, agreed to meet Arafat on Wednesday, other Jewish leaders objected; 60 religious judges and rabbis issued a statement in the Jewish Chronicle urging Jews not to meet Arafat or his representatives on the grounds that the publicity would strengthen public recognition of the PLO while weakening the bargaining power of Israel.

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