Percy: No Peace Without
Solving Palestinian Issue
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Sen Charles Percy (R-I11.),
who will be chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in the next Con-
gress, said that there can be
no peace in the Middle East
without a solution of the
Palestinian problem and
that the U.S must take a
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"very serious" intermediary
'role to find one.
He also reiterated his
long standing opposition to
Israeli Premier Menahem
T n's settlement policies
wi-..Lch, he said, have not SEN. CHARLES PERCY
/— "been conducive to the
recognize that it must be
peace process."
Percy offered his views in solved," he said.
Asked if he saw any
a statement and in response
to questions at a press con- resolution of the Palesti-
ference at the'Capitol in nian problem without
which he covered such sub- recognition of the Pales-
jects as U.S. weapons to tine Liberation Organiza-
Saudi Arabia, the role of tion, Percy replied: "All I
human rights in foreign pol- would say is what I said
icy and future peace efforts when I left the Middle
East five years ago that
in the Middle East.
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Expressing his own there would be no real
views in response to peace in the Middle East
questions, Percy said the unless we recognize that
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Palestinians were mis- a solution must be found
perceived in this country to that problem."
Asked if he favored the
with respect to their
numbers and who they supply of enhanced weapons
to Saudi Arabia in view of
are
.
`A.n unlikely perception the Soviet presence in the
in some quarters, even in Middle East, Percy recalled
this country, is that the that he had supported
Palestinians are a rela- weapons sales in the last
tively small group, ter- Congress with the appro-
rorists and so forth," Percy priate restrictions.
said:
"But the Palestinians are
scattered all over the Mid-
dle East — 3 1/2 million
people; they are highly edu-
cated. They are profession:,
als, they are doctors,
lawyers, diplomats. But
they yearn for a resolution
, of this problem. We cannot
and will not have peace in
the Middle East until we
`Dealings With
Arabs to Change
With Reagan'
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
King Hussein of Jordan said
he believes the change of
administration in Washing-
ton provides "a suitable
opportunity" for the U.S. to
adopt a new approach in its
dealings with the Arab
world and says he "would be
delighted" to meet with
President-Elect Ronald Re-
agan after he takes office,
according to an interview
with the Jordanian
monarch published in the
Beirut weekly An Nahar
Sunday.
ussein was asked if he
yes the Camp David
p ce process has run its
course with Reagan's elec-
tion. The periodical quoted
him as replying, "I believe it
is a suitable opportunity for
the President and the new
Administration to recon-
sider the affairs of the
region and start a new page
in its dealings with the
Arab world."
He said he would agree to
a federation with a Palesti-
nian entity if the Palesti-
nians accepted it. The fu-
ture relationship between
Jordan and the Palestinians
depends on what the Pales-
tinians wanted, he said.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Pope M.E. Peace
View Blasted
by German Jew
Friday, November 28, 1980 11
BONN (JTA) — A couple
of days after heading a dele-
gation of West German
JeWry which met the Pope
in Mainz, the chairman of
the Jewish Community in
Bonn, Werner Nachmann,
criticized what he termed
the failure of the Vatican to
honor sufficiently the peace
treaty between Israel and
Egypt.
In an interview published
in "Die Welt" Nachamnn
observed that the Vatican
also failed to officially rec :
ognize the state of Israel, or
to send a nuncio to
Jerusalem.
Asked about a papal re-
mark to Mainz on the need
for all peoples to be recon-
ciled in Jerusalem,
Nachmann said: "I hope
that what the Pope meant
was that Jerusalem with its
holy places is today accessi-
ble to all religions. I hope
that the Pope meant he
wishes peace all come and
prays for it, that the present
situation will be kept un-
touched."
In the meeting with the
Pope the Jewish delegation
had asked the Pontiff to
support the present situa-
tion, where each religious
community takes care of its
own holy places.
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