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Article: Lebanese fears. (the Gaza-Jericho plan between the Palestinians and Israelis instill fears in the Lebanese leaders)
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- The Middle East
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- October 1, 1993
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News of the Gaza-Jericho plan between the PLO and Israel came as a cruel surprise to the Lebanese leaders, particularly as Beirut had been host only days earlier to an Arab foreign ministers meeting in which the imperative of Arab co-ordination had once more been reiterated.
Lebanese president Elias Hrawi accused the PLO of having ruined Arab solidarity by secretly negotiating with the Israelis. A bitter sense of betrayal was much on the president's mind as he remarked how Lebanon had stood by Arafat and the PLO in 1982 during the Israeli invasion, at huge human and material cost, only to be left in the dark by Arafat at this important juncture.
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