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The visit was shrouded in deepest secrecy, its details known only to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a few top , officials. Early last week, Osama el Baz, Mubarak's closest adviser, boarded a helicopter in Cairo and flew to the Egyptian border. He was driven...
El Baz's get-together with Peres, the highest-level contact between the two countries since Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, was the most promising development in a sudden burst of diplomacy in the Middle East over the past three weeks. In the days following el Baz's trip...
After conferring with el Baz, Peres announced his support for the Mubarak initiative. Though major stumbling blocks remain, the Egyptians and Israelis reached an accommodation on the sensitive issue of the P.L.O.'s role. Peres accepted a formula in which Palestinians who are not "declared members" of the P.L.O. could...
) At some point, that pattern will have to include Syria, which has the muscle to hinder any settlement attempt. The Syrian Cabinet last week declared its intention to undermine the Mubarak-Hussein-Arafat initiative. Anyone who doubts Syria's resolve need only look at south Lebanon, where Shi'ite Muslims...
Israel decided unilaterally in January to pull out of Lebanon because attempts to work out a security agreement with Lebanon had failed. Plans call for a total withdrawal by this summer. Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres believes that the continuing occupation serves only to build the Shi'ite resistance...