Word: mubarak
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...Arab world is the critical factor in Assad's thinking. Two weeks ago the 42-nation Islamic summit meeting in Casablanca invited Egypt to return to the group. Its membership had been suspended in 1979 after Cairo signed a peace treaty with Israel. The government of President Hosni Mubarak is anxious to do so, but only if this will not compromise its support of Camp David and of the pact with Israel. The next step may come in March, when Egypt's moderate friends will try to get Cairo readmitted to the 21-member Arab League, a step...
...moribund negotiations on autonomy for the West Bank's 800,000 Palestinians be revived, but he flatly ruled out involving Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat. Shamir's smile, however, could quickly fade. A senior diplomatic source told TIME in Cairo last week that during Hosni Mubarak's meeting with Arafat two weeks ago, the Egyptian President had agreed to take in some P.L.O. fighters. How many of Arafat's men might be stationed in Egypt was uncertain, and skeptical U.S. State Department officials said they knew of nothing resembling such an arrangement. If the report...
...been besieged by Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels and shelled by Israeli naval guns. The ever flexible Arafat quickly looked for new support-and appeared to find it in Cairo. As he arrived by helicopter from Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the P.L.O. chairman received a warm embrace from Mubarak. Later, after a conversation that lasted almost two hours, Mubarak hailed his guest as a "moderate leader of the Palestinian people." Arafat, for his part, expressed the hope that one day he and Mubarak would be able to pray together at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem...
...Mubarak, the encounter with Arafat was a step toward an Egyptian reconciliation with much of the Arab world. Palestinian hard-liners called Arafat's move "treason," and Syria denounced him as "the new Sadat," but Arab moderates were delighted. As further indication that the Arabs' isolation of Egypt is ending, Jordan said that it would resume full-scale trading with Egypt for the first time in five years...
...responded favorably as well, characterizing the Mubarak-Arafat meeting as "an encouraging development." That angered the government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, which insisted that the encounter in Cairo was a breach of the spirit of Camp David. In a frosty, hour-long meeting with Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Meir Rosenne, protested that Camp David enjoined the Egyptians from encouraging terrorism and thus from dealing with the likes of Arafat. Eagleburger replied that the U.S. saw the rapprochement as an opportunity...