(Financial Times) Robert Satloff - Granting Arafat virtual immunity runs against precedent. U.S. law stipulates that the PLO, with Arafat at its head, is a terrorist group with which the U.S. has relations only by dint of periodic presidential waiver. In June 1990, the U.S. cut ties with Arafat when he violated commitments to renounce terrorism.
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