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Mubarak was urged "to demon- strate to his fellow Arab leaders the advantage of peace with Israel by giving genuine content to that peace -- by returning his Ambas- sador to Israel and by fullfilling the commitment to trade, tourism and cultural exchanges contained in the treaty between Egypt and Israel." "Only if the Arab world recog- nizes that peace with Israel can bring political and economic divi- dends will the circle of peace grow wider," said Kenneth Bialkin, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Bialkin led a group of some 20 leaders of American Jewish organizations in an hour-long meeting with the Egyptian leader at the Madison Hotel in Washing- ton Monday during Mubarak's three-day visit to the United States. The Egyptian president was here for talks with President Reagan and other senior Ad- ministration officials. Bialkin, addressing reporters following the meeting, said the Egyptian leader repeated his commitment to peace with Israel and voiced confidence that pro- gress would be made in three areas so that he could return his Ambassador to Israel and pro- mote trade and tourism with Is- rael. Mubarak, according to Bialkin, expressed satisfaction at Israel's decision to withdraw from Leba- non and understanding that the Palestinian issue posed great difficulties for any Israeli gov- ernment. But Bialkin reported that Mubarak appeared troubled by the lingering dispute over Taba. Mubarak said that Egyp- tian public opinion was not yet ready for the return of its Ambas- sador to Israel, withdrawn follow- ing the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in September, 1982. In turn, the Jewish leaders urged Mubarak to "exercise genuine leadership" by helping to mold public opinion in his country to understand the advantages of normal relations with Israel. Mubarak insisted that the ab- sence of the Egyptian envoy from Israel did not mean an absence of contact and dialogue with the Jewish state, Bialkin reported. "Mubarak expressed confidence that his envoy to Israel would be returned and that trade, tourism and cultural exchanges would fol- low," said Bialkin, adding, "He kept telling us to 'be patient,' and he repeated that Egypt 'respects its commitments to Israel 100 percent,' and never thinks of going back on the peace treaty." Mubarak also told the delega- tion that he recognized there could be no solution to the Arab- Israel conflict unless both sides sat down with each other and talked. "Mubarak justified his proposals for a Jordanian- Palestinian-American meeting as a way of making a 'psychological' breaking toward peace. We told him this idea was a non-starter and would serve to delay the peace process, which could only advance when Israel met directly with Jordan and a non-PLO delegation of Palestinian Arabs." The delegation of Jewish lead- ers was especially disappointed, according to Bialkin, by two Mubarak statements. "One was his defense of (PLO chief) Yassir Arafat as a 'moderate,' a descrip- tion we told him we could not ac- cept," Bialkin said. "The other was his rather off- hand response to a question we raised on what Egyptian children read in their textbooks and learned at school about Israel and the Jewish people. Mubarak dis- missed the question as one that would take care of itself once normal relations with Israel were restored. "Our response was that a better understanding of Israel and the people who live there was essen- tial to such a peace," Bialkin said. Meanwhile, in Brussels Mon- day, Israel's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that Israel is still waiting for a serious peace initiative to emerge from the Arab camp. Commenting on Mubarak's re- cent proposals, the leader of Is- rael's Likud bloc was highly skep- tical. "For the time being, we don't see any real peace initiative on President Mubarak's part, but if something happens that would bring about a serious peace, then everyone would welcome it," Shamir said. In a related development, Is- raeli Premier Shimon Peres has flatly denied that one of his top aides met secretly with a repre- sentative of Jordan's King Hus- sein in Cairo last week. Peres was referring to a report in Yediot Achronot claiming that Gen. (Res.) Avraham Tamir, Di- rector General of the Prime Minister's office, met in the Egyp- tian capital with Adnan Abu Oudeh, Minister of State at the Royal Court in Amman, to discuss possible Palestinian members of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian negotiating team. Tax Proposals Spark Strike Tel Aviv (JTA) — All commer- cial enterprises in Haifa except banks were closed Tuesday fol- lowing a one-day strike called by the local chamber of commerce to protest municipality plans to raise taxes 500-1,000 percent. A chamber of commerce spokesman said the new tax rates for business establishments would be double or triple the taxes paid by the proprietors of similar businesses in Tel Aviv. As a result, Haifa, Israel's largest seaport, was shut down. Shops and factories closed their doors and movie houses cancelled shows. The banks remained open by order of the Bank of the Israel, the country's central bank which regulates them.