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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Philip Habib, President
Reagan's special envoy for
the crisis in Lebanon, said
he would not return to the
Middle East until the Arab
League's special committee
has a chance to continue its
efforts to solve the problems
facing Lebanon, both inter-
nal and external.
Habib also indicated that
the missiles Syria has
placed in Lebanon is not a
priority issue for the United
States.
"I think it is in the United.
States interest, the interest
of the people of the region,
that the process of dealing
with the complexities of
Lebanon go on," Habib told
several hundreds people at
the 35th annual conference
of the Middle East Institute
last month. He said that the
need now was to "consoli-
date the gains" made in
Lebanon and to reduce the
chances of another crisis oc-
curring.
Habib, who had retired
from the State Department
in 1978 as assistant Sec-
retary of State for Political
Affairs, was sent to the
Mideast by Reagan last
May after Syria moved
SAM-6 missiles into Leba-
non and Israel threatened to
remove them by force.
The retired diplomat's
remarks came in re-
sponse to a questioner
who asked about Pre-
mier Menahem Begin's
statement on a television
program while he was in
the United States re-
cently in which the Pre-
mier said he expected
Habib to return to the
Middle East soon to get
the missiles removed.
Habib replied that he will
return to the Mideast
when the President de-
cides there is "something
for me to do."
Habib said that while the
missiles are still a major is-
sue, at least for the contend-
ing parties, the major effort
was to consolidate the gains
made by the cease-fire ac-
ross the Lebanese border to
solve Lebanon's many in-
ternal and external prob-
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lents.
On other issues, Habib re-
jected the contention of a
member of the audience
that the U.S. should end its
commitment to Israel to re-
fuse to deal with the Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion because it was not leg-
ally bound to do so.
Habib said the United
States had made a "solemn
commitment" which was
"reasserted" by four Ad-
ministrations not to speak
to the PLO until it recog-
nizes Israel's right to exist
and accepted United Na-
tions Security Council Re-
solutions 242 and 338. 'The
ball is in the PLO court,"
Habib said.
Habib said he supports
the sale of AWACS recon-
naissance planes to Saudi
Arabia and believes the sale
will not "jeopardize " Israel
and that the Saudi "re-
quirements are real." He
had earlier said that the
U.S. commitment to the
security of Israel "is un-
changed from the Ad-
ministration to Administ-
ration."
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Holocaust; that nation-
states had no future; and
that a Jewish state in Pales-
tine had a future even
darker."
Several speakers at the
symposium argued against
these beliefs. Matti Megged,
dean of humanities at Haifa
University questioned Miss
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political thinker who died in
1975, were the subject of a
three-day symposium at
New York University last
weekend.
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conference took issue with
Miss Arendt' criticisms of
Jewish leaders during the
Holocaust, her anti-Zionism
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"Yet she also felt — after
abandoning Zionism during
the 1940's — that Jews
should have tried harder at
politics in Europe before the
war; that Jews had not
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