Only if they secure the approval of the PLO, do the Israelis have any chance of staging the elections in the first place, and the idea behind the US proposal is to enable them to win effective PLO support for their plan, while preserving the fiction that they are still having nothing to do with a `terrorist" organisation which remains bent on Israel's `destruction". 
It is not for the Israelis to dictate who would represent him, Mr Arafat replied, but, in his counter-proposal, he made another gesture of goodwill: The delegation of `insiders" should be supplemented by `outsiders" of his choice. 
For however doughty supporters of the PLO the insiders might be, only outsiders would incontestably be seen to <tag "515647">derive</> their authority from Mr Arafat himself.   

