Word: fez
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Arab responses to Reagan's initiative have been slightly more encouraging. True, Washington has had to comfort itself by noting what the 20 members of the Arab League did not say at their summit meeting in Fez two weeks ago, rather than what they did say. The Fez summiteers called again for an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital, a plan that is as unacceptable to the U.S. as it is to Israel. But they did not flatly reject Reagan's plan, and phrases hi their proposal could be read...
Egypt's President Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein were more forthcoming last week. The Egyptian President, who was not invited to Fez, said the Arab plan "lacks a mechanism" for achieving its goals, and thus Reagan's proposals are preferable. In an interview with the BBC, Hussein openly declared his willingness to establish "normal relations" with Israel eventually and said of Reagan's plan: "I believe it to be a very constructive and a very positive move, and I would certainly like to see it continue and evolve...
...enthusiasm. Shultz has argued that Jordan and representatives of the West Bank Palestinians must enter the now suspended talks between Israel and Egypt on Palestinian autonomy if Reagan's plan is to have any chance of success. That, said Hussein, Jordan cannot yet do because the Fez summit gave him no mandate to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians. Indeed, it reaffirmed a declaration of the 1974 Rabat summit that the P.L.O. is the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...effective support to its Syrian, Iraqi and P.L.O. allies, would certainly jump at any invitation. At a Kremlin dinner last week for President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen, Brezhnev denounced Reagan's plan as "basically vicious" and put forward one of his own that paralleled the Fez resolutions. Israelis, Arabs and Americans all appraised it, accurately, as containing little...
...this attention to the past makes perfect sense, to a point. How is one to deal with the unimaginable if one forgets that it actually occurred? Surely the Arab states' initial response to Israel's nationhood did nothing to encourage Jewish forgetfulness, nor does the recent Fez conference suggest that the Arabs are less ensnared by the past than the Israelis. What is to prevent Israel, one bomb wide, from becoming the worst disaster yet in Jewish history? So goes the question, still reaching toward yesterday. Yet the answer lies in the present, in what Israel is right...