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At the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel saluted the U.N.'s 40th anniversary with a speech that experts considered to be one of the most accommodating public statements ever made by an Israeli leader on the subject of the peace process. Recalling the late Anwar...
In Amman, Peres' speech drew a surprisingly favorable response from Hussein. In an interview with the New York Times, the Jordanian monarch called the Israeli offer "a positive one in its spirit," even though it failed in "meeting the needs of the moment." Peres, in turn, was described as "positively...
On the surface at least, all that activity was heartening. But most of the stirrings were also tentative and even contradictory in their objectives and strategies. Peres' U.N. speech could not be separated from his other apparent goal, the removal of the P.L.O. from the peace negotiations. The Israeli leader...
In his U.N. speech, the Israeli leader took yet another anti-P.L.O. tack. He sidestepped Arafat entirely and appealed instead to the Palestinian people to join the peace talks. Said Peres: "Come forth and recognize the reality of the state of Israel. Let us face each other across the...
Peres' apparent concession to Hussein on the matter of an international peace conference took a highly convoluted form. In his U.N. speech, the Prime Minister said that "if deemed necessary," peace talks "may be initiated with the support of an international forum, as agreed upon by the negotiating states." He...