(Commentary) Jennifer Rubin - After a recent headline reported, "U.S. Upgrades PA Diplomatic Recognition," a knowledgeable Israel hand e-mailed: The news stories that say the U.S. has upgraded the Palestinian Authority office in Washington are wrong, for there is no PA office. There is a PLO office, one that requires a waiver twice each year to exist because of the PLO's past links to terrorism. The PLO is, according to the UN, the "sole legitimate voice of the Palestinian people," but everyone knows that's false; the PLO represents the ghost of Yasser Arafat, plus a whole bunch of his cronies. It would be far better to end the farce of having a PLO office - after all, who elected them? - and to try to establish a PA office, for any current and future Palestinian political development will take place through the PA.
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