Husseini: A big fish in a crowding pond

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: July 21, 1995| Author: BILL HUTMAN | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

07-21-1995

FAISAL Husseini cuts an impressive figure, mobile phone in hand, seated in one of the finely decorated receiving rooms of Orient House, a PLO flag behind him, bodyguards nearby.

But is the man who heads the PLO headquarters in Jerusalem as powerful a political figure as he seems? Several recent events seem to indicate otherwise.

Palestinian sources say that during PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's visit last month to Jericho, H...

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