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Mubarak's initiative grew out of an accord signed by Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein in Amman last month. That agreement, which el Baz helped draft, is an ambiguous document that calls for a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation to negotiate for Palestinian rights within "the proposed confederated Arab states of Jordan and Palestine." Though the accord does not specifically demand the creation of a separate Palestinian state, it offers little incentive to Israel to enter negotiations. Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan...
...Hussein has refrained from criticizing the Mubarak scheme. The Jordanian monarch, who was vacationing in Europe last week, is scheduled to meet with Mubarak in Egypt this week. Still stung by the rejection of the 1982 Reagan Middle East peace plan by Israel and much of the Arab world, U.S. officials remain skeptical that the Egyptian President can bring together the Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians, with or without the P.L.O.'s blessing. Nonetheless, State Department officials look forward to discussing both Mubarak's plan and the Hussein-Arafat accord with the Egyptian President when he visits Washington early next week...
...pursuit of a Middle East peace plan has increased sharply. Though little was accomplished, the two-day Soviet- American talks in Vienna last week were the first high-level discussions on the Middle East that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have held since 1977. A week earlier, King Hussein of Jordan and P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat had agreed on a joint approach to the Palestinian problem. The accord, the text of which Jordan released last Saturday, predictably called for Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupies. But the agreement also offered a conditional acceptance of United Nations Resolution...
Israel viewed the agreement with supreme skepticism. "What is going on in Amman seems to be directed mainly toward Washington," said Prime Minister Shimon Peres. "But peace must be made with Jerusalem." Washington was appropriately cautious about the Hussein-Arafat meeting. Reagan told reporters: "(From) the little we know about it, it seems as if some progress has been made." If indeed it had, one reason was that Hussein had made skillful preparations. He has taken pains to maintain close ties throughout the Arab world, and last year became the first Arab leader to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cairo since...
Arafat's apparent desire to strike a deal with Hussein and shore up his standing with Arab moderates may have stemmed from the decision of several hard-line, Syrian-backed factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the last session of the Palestine National Council, its de facto parliament in exile. At the same time, Syria's drive to become the region's dominant Arab state may have led to a hardening of the will among moderates to reach a new consensus. In any case, the principal question still to be answered from the Hussein-Arafat agreement is how forthrightly...