Arabs reject election plan, despite warning
NZPA-Reuter Ramallah, West Bank Arab activists of the occupied West Bank have told the Defence Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, they oppose Israeli election proposals, despite his warning they would be making a historic mistake. Israeli military authorities summoned the 15 activists to their headquar-
ters near Ramallah yesterday for a 21/ 2 -hour meeting where Mr Rabin outlined the plan adopted by the Israeli Cabinet on Monday. “Everybody rejected it as it was proposed,” Bethlehem’s Mayor, Elias Freij, told Reuters, even though Israel Television reported the group did not reject the plan outright. “Nobody rejected the
principle of free and democratic elections but everybody rejected the Israeli election plan,” Mr Freij said. The plan would let the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip choose Arab negotiators to talks with Israel. It provides an interim period of Arab selfrule of up to three years followed by negotiations on an unspecified final status.
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