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10 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 221 (1980-1981)
The PLO and the Rule of Law: A Reply to Dr. Anis Kassim

handle is hein.journals/denilp10 and id is 235 raw text is: DIALOGUE: THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE PLO Editor's note: The following articles by Messrs. Friedlander, Levine, and Kassim relate back to an earlier article by Dr. Kassim, The Pales- tine Liberation Organization's Claim to Status: A Juridical Analysis Under International Law, 9 DENVER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY 1 (1980). The PLO and the Rule of Law: A Reply to Dr. Anis Kassim ROBERT A. FRIEDLANDER When the rule of law is being compromised by expediency in many places of the world, it is crucial ... to make certain that the United States does not retaliate in kind.1 The destiny of the Palestinian people is determined by the gun of the Palestinian revolutionary.' [Tierrorism threatens, endangers or destroys the lives and funda- mental freedoms of the innocent. .... . On June 13, 1980, the nine heads of state of the European Economic Community, meeting in Venice, issued a unanimous declaration favoring recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and urging the participation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the full exercise of the Palestinian right to self-determination.4 This was the Robert A. Friedlander is a Professor of Law at the Ohio Northern University College of Law, and is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. He is the author of a three-volume documentary analysis of terrorism and co- editor of a recent study of self-determination. Ph.D., 1963, Northwestern University; J.D., 1973, DePaul University. Portions of this article have been adapted from the author's Charles P. Taft Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Cincinnati on May 29, 1980. 1. Narenji v. Civiletti, 619 F.2d 745 (D.C. Cir. 1980). 2. Statement of Yassir Arafat, quoted in N.Y. Times, June 15, 1980, at 5, col. 3. 3. Report of the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly, U.N. Doc. A/C.6/418, Corr. 1, 2 & Add. 1 (1972). 4. The complete text of the Venice Declaration is reprinted in N.Y Times, June 14, 1980, at 4, col. 3.

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