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Friday, August 1, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Although it is far too early to
assess the full significance of the
meeting in Morocco between Is-
rael's Prime Minister Shimon
Peres and Morocco's King Has-
san, after consultation with lead-
ing authorities we are prepared
to venture the following corn-
ments:
The most striking aspect of this
initiative, thus far, is the absence
of vehement, concerted Arab de-
nunciation or threat of reprisal.
President Mubarak of Egypt has
warmly praised Hassan, King
Hussein of Jordan and other con-
servative Arab rulers remain
non-commital, and except for
Syria's breakoff of diplomatic ties
with Morocco, the radical Arab
states have thus far contented
themselves with pro-forma de-
nunciations despite Syria's call to
follow its example.
It seems clear, especially since
he is the presiding chairman of
the Arab League, that King Has-
san would not have undertaken
this dramatic move without first
obtaining at least tacit approval
from key Arab leaders in other
states. For one thing, he could not
risk the loss of Arab support for
Morocco's annexation of Western
Sahara which has been the cen-
terpiece of his policy since th
mid-1970s and which is critically
important to the domestic stabil-
ity of his regime.
If, as now seems possible, Has-
san gets away with this move
without major Arab retribution,
this fact, added to Hussein's ,re-
cent unchallenged expulsion and
repudiation of the PLO and the
surprising willingness of such
noted Palestinian figures as Ga-
za's former mayor A-Shawwa
publicly to endorse Hussein's
move, encourages the hope that
significant Arab and Palestinian
elements are becoming increas-
ingly emboldened. It may be that
the most important inference to
be drawn from this whole Moroc-
can episode is that the time is ap-
proaching when these Arab fac-
tors will be able to free them-
selves from the constraints and
discipline imposed by the PLO. It
would be wrong to make too
much of these slender indica-
tions; on the other hand, they
should not be summarily dis-
missed.
Whereas Prime Minister Peres'
motives for going to Morocco
seem clear enough — to imple-
ment his oft-repeated desire to
promote the peace process and,
incidentally, to repair the dam-
age done to his image by recent
domestic scandals — Hassan's
reasons for meeting with Peres at
this time are more obscure.
Surely Morocco's relations with
the United States, which have
been strained since its conclusion
of a union treaty with Qaddafi's
Libya in 1984, were an important
factor in the. King's decision.
President Reagan has requested
Congress to increase U.S. aid to
Morocco in 1987 to $154 million
from $138 million in 1986, and
Hassan must have been aware
Phil Baum is associate executive
director and Raphael Danziger
is a policy analyst for the
American Jewish Congress.
that in these days of Gramm-
Rudman, a positive gesture on
his part was essential even to
preserve the current level of U.S.
aid, let alone induce Congress to
accede to the President's request
for an increase. Given the sad
shape of Morocco's economy and
its massive foreign debt of $14
billion, U.S. aid has to be a major
consideration in Morocco's
foreign policy.
Still, at other times, this would
have seemed an extravagantly
risky maneuver to adopt, in the
mere hope that it would stimu-
late enhanced American finan-
cial support. It would seem rea-
sonable to assume, therefore,
that other considerations must
have been at work as well. Thus,
the timing of the meeting, other-
wise puzzling, doubtless was re-
lated to the impending rotation of
the prime ministership in Israel,
an event which has caused con-
sternation among conservative
Arab leaders who view a Likud-
If Hassan gets away
with this move, it
may embolden
significant elements.
led government as far less amen-
able to an agreement on the West
Bank than is the current Labor-
led government.
And finally, ever since last
February's occupation of Iraq's
southern tip by Iranian troops,
Arab leaders have come to view
Iranian fundamentalist expan-
sion into the Arab world as the
gravest threat to their survival,
leading some of them to the con-
clusion that the Arab-Israeli con-
flict must be put aside, at least
temporarily, so that they will be
able to focus their attention and
energies on the Iranian threat.
King Hassan, in particular, has
been deeply frustrated by the col-
lapse of the Hussein initiative
last February and has apparently
felt a need to break the deadlock.
His failure to convene an Arab
summit to deal with the issue
seems to have led him to the con-
clusion that he would have to go
it alone.
The open question remains
whether Hassan's move is the
prelude to genuine progress in
the peace process between Israel
and Jordan. It is improbable that
Hassan would have gone through
the trouble of a meeting with
Peres for the mere sake of a sym-
bolic move with no prospect of a
substantive follow-up. King Hus-
sein has not yet mustered suffi-
cient support in the West Bank to
risk a unilateral move toward Is-
rael which may account for his
circumspect response to the
Peres-Hassan meeting. Nonethe-
less, since the meeting is clearly
to his advantage in that it sets
the precedent of an Arab League
member negotiating directly
with Israel with no PLO partici-
pation, Hussein may well have
encouraged Hassan to embark
upon this initiative. Certainly
the meeting in Morocco has made
Hussein's life a lot easier and
probably a lot safer.