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Farmington Hills, MI 48018 24 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.