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...pressure is now on Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He balked at U.S. efforts early last year, but since then the Arabs have come a long way toward meeting Israeli preconditions. The conference would be sponsored not by the United Nations but by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It would convene once, then break up into four groups for direct negotiations among Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states...
...years," Baker said in Jerusalem, "Israel has sought direct negotiations with its neighbors, and it has been right to do so. Now there is a real opportunity to get to those face-to-face negotiations." He said he had not given Shamir a deadline for his response but hoped to get an answer before this week's U.S.-Soviet summit in Moscow. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev were thinking of issuing invitations from the summit to an October peace conference...
...talks with Baker, Shamir raised the question of who would represent the Palestinians at the conference, the same issue that led to the fall of the Israeli government of national unity in March 1990, and threw the Labor Party into opposition. Israel adamantly refuses to sit down with Palestinians from East Jerusalem for fear of signaling that the area, won in the 1967 war and now annexed to Jewish West Jerusalem, is open to negotiation...
...Shamir also said publicly that Syria's agreement to talk has altered the Middle East equation. "For the first time," he said, "the President of Syria is ready to negotiate with Israel." At a meeting with visiting American district attorneys, Shamir sounded even more upbeat: "As the situation stands now, I think that we are approaching the beginning of negotiations...
...INSIDE SHAMIR'S MIND...