Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 6/3 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with former PLO member Shafiz Al Hout

Typescript transcript of filmed interviews with Shafiz Al Hout, former Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive member and de facto Palestinians representative in Lebanon, describing Palestinian reaction to the United Nations resolution partitioning Palestine and reports of a massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin (1947-1948); the removal of his family from Jaffa to Lebanon (1948); Palestinian morale following the Israeli defeat at Karameh battle (Mar 1948); the relationship between the Palestinians and Jordanians; meetings between Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), and Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt 1952-1970, concerning unrest in Jordan and Egyptian foreign policy (1970); Israeli attack on Beirut and Arafat's role in directing the Palestinian resistance (1982); negotiations between Arafat and Philip Habib, US Special Envoy, concerning the withdrawal of the PLO from Lebanon, and Arafat's departure by ship (Aug 1982); Arafat's career in the PLO. 29pp