Word: fahd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arafat's room to maneuver was also cramped by his dependence on Syria, which helps sustain the P.L.O. as a military force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...
...prospect of bringing the Soviets back into the Middle East picture was just one of the problems that the Saudi campaign, for all of its hopeful aspects, posed to U.S. policymakers. If the Fahd plan is approved at the Fez summit, Washington would come under increasing pressure from its own Western allies to deal with the P.L.O. in spite of Israeli protests. Said one senior State Department official: "It will mean a new ball game in the Middle East. People will say, 'The P.L.O. has finally done what the Americans have wanted it to do. It has accepted Israel...
Although the Reagan Administration remains committed to the Camp David process as the best means of working out a settlement in the Middle East, U.S. officials regard the Fahd plan as a possible starting point for new negotiations if there is a hopeless deadlock in talks between the Israelis and the Egyptians. Then, too, the Administration wants to encourage the Saudis in general to use their power to work for moderation in the region. Thus Reagan last week gingerly praised the Fahd plan, calling it a "hopeful sign" and one that indicated the willingness to negotiate." Secretary of State Alexander...
...midweek the Israeli position seemed to soften. Emerging from a 90-min. meeting with Secretary of State Haig, Moshe Arens, leader of a parliamentary delegation sent to Washington by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to talk about rising Israeli concerns, had some unexpectedly encouraging words about the Fahd plan. Arens declared that the Saudis had gone "a little way beyond the kind of statements they have made in the past." Coming from an Israeli hardliner, a close Begin associate and Israel's next Ambassador to Washington, that remark stirred speculation that the Israelis might consider at least some...
...April, feels that the peace would be more durable if a settlement could be reached before then. Further more, there is growing concern in Jerusalem that Washington is becoming disenchanted with the slow pace of the autonomy talks and might abandon the Camp David approach in favor of the Fahd plan or some other alternative...