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THE STRUGGLE FOR
PALESTINE
The most complex and crucial issue of all in the Middle East today is the fate of the Pa/estinian
Arabs and the West Bank. It is an explosive issue which will not go away.
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n an interview last July, Saudi
Arabia's Oil Minister Sheik
Ahmed Zaki Yamani warned
that the United States must be pre-
The
PLAIN TAUTH October / November 1979
by
Keith W. Stump
pared to "face the consequences"–
meaning a cutoff of Mideast oil–
unless it acts quickly to pressure Is–
rael to allow the creation of a Pales-
tinian homeland on the occupied
West Bank of the Jordan River.
Yamani observed that "the Pales–
tinians are growing ever more des-
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