Q: But if the PLO does come round to recognising Israel's legitimacy and permanency, would Israel then permit the creation of a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state?

A: I don't believe the PLO can really change its position apart from lip service to our existence. They are not going to abandon their objective of a secular state in a greater Palestine because they would then lose their raison d'etre. Their basic philosophy is that the Jews have no right to a state of their own and that their own state should be erected on the ruins of the Israeli state.