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The encounter is in the pages of Foreign Policy, the quarterly pub- lished by the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace. The leading article of the winter issue is Eban's call for an active Ameri- can initiative in securing a speedy resumption of the peace process. It is followed by Talal's exposition of what must be considered the offi- cial Jordanian position. A major point of difference be- comes immediately evident on the peacemaking process. Eban, who deplores the fact that "for more than three years there has not been even a symbolic pretense that a peace process is in force," insists that "there is no alterna- tive to the United States as an agent of reconciliation in this region." He calls on the Reagan Administration to act im- mediately when there is "a good prospect of success" which he be- lieves exists today. 27881 ORCHARD LAKE RD. 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Fear of Islamic fundamen- talist terrorism is a powerful element in the thinking of Arab rulers on the question of an Arab-Israeli peace settle- ment, Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan reveals in his Foreign Policy article. "A major concern," he says, "is that the current (Arab- Israeli) deadlock may degen- erate into a primitive war be- tween extremist ideological groups that already threaten to destroy the social fabric of our societies. The lessons of Lebanon and Iraq must be heeded. "Nor is the Israel political system immune to the poli- tics of fanaticism. On the con- trary, the indications are that Israel is terribly vulnerable to this danger. "The gloomy prospect that stares Middle East states in the face is that we may be plunged into an interminable internecine war that will spare no one." mediator has not induced the de- sired result." In the prevailing impasse, he argues for return to "the original machinery of negotiations that began at the Geneva Middle East peace conference chaired jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union. Then President Richard Nixon was led to the con- viction that permanent peace in the Middle East could not be ob- tained without the cooperation of the two superpowers." (Nixon told the Wall Street Journal in November that he had advised President Reagan to talk with the Kremlin on the Middle East issue, asserting his belief that "the Russians should play a role" in the area.) The general consensus in Europe, the Third World and the Arab states, as well as the Pales- tine Liberation Organization, Talal claims, "is in favor of the idea. "A new Geneva-style confer- ence to discuss the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict under United Nations auspices would provide an umbrella to offset Is- rael's current dominance in the region," according to Talal. "This is particularly important because the role of impartial mediator as- sumed by the United States to the exclusion of all others is difficult, if not impossible, to sustain. Moreover," he adds, "the partici- pation of all the parties directly involved in the dispute is the only certain way of ensuring a just and lasting settlement." For his part, Eban flatly rejects this idea of a Geneva conference under United Nations auspices. The Soviet Union, he points out, has disqualified itself by its "bla- tant anti-Israeli bias." Western Europe is "too vulnerable to Arab economic pressure to play a bal- anced role in its own right." And as for the United Nations, the Arab-Moslem-Communist groups command its voting system "so no decisions that are respectful of Is- raeli interests can be expected from international agencies." That situation, he stresses, "leaves the United States alone in the field as the catalyzing agent capable of guiding a negotiation." American passivity, con- sequently, "would condemn the Middle East to a volcanic status quo leading to a possible explo- sion." Talal, who seeks the maximum anti-Israel support that he be- lieves a Geneva-type conference would provide, denigrates the American role and capacity to function as a mediator. Arab re- liance on the United States as the sole mediator in the past, he as- serts, "has not induced the desired result." Further, he charges, "the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, coupled with the result of the re- cent Israeli general elections, is not conducive to an accommoda- tion in international or regional conflicts." In reviewing the failure of the peace process in recent years, Eban is sharply critical of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin.