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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...
After the Fez meeting, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said last week: "Now there are two positions, one stated in a rather conciliatory form from the Arab summit, the other stated rather intransigently from Jerusalem. Now it is the task of diplomacy to find a way, maybe on an interim basis, between these two positions. I think it is possible, and I think the initiative the President has taken provides a basis for it. I feel we have now seen the beginning of a negotiating process...
...Bank to Arab control. Hussein will not enter negotiations with the Israelis unless he has the approval of other Arab leaders, such as Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. King Hussein and Saddam were photographed chatting amiably at last week's Fez summit...
...peace in this area," and Thomas Dine, executive director of the 30,000-member American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the official lobby for American pro-Israeli groups, initially declared that he saw "a lot of value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim to "the classic pattern of Arab duplicity and American naiveté." The A.I.P.A.C. has nevertheless asserted that "there were positive points in the President's initiative...
...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...