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he PLO is firmly
committed to a two-
state solution to the
Arab-Israeli conflict —
namely, Israel living along
side a new state of Palestine.
That was the message
Columbia University Pro-
fessor Edward Said, a
member of the Palestine Na-
tional Council, brought to a
Capitol Hill roundtable
discussion on the Middle
East, sponsored by the
American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee
(ADC) inWashington.
It was also the message
that former Democratic Sen.
George McGovern brought
to the Oct. 17 seminar.
McGovern said that he had
just met in Berlin with PLO
Chairman Yassir Arafat.
"He believes in a two-state
solution, no question about
that," McGovern said. "He's
obviously willing to accept
the State of Israel and live in
peace with them. He would
accept some kind of elections
if it were understood that
those elections went beyond
such local chores as picking
up the garbage in the
villages and towns of the
West Bank. He wants an
election that is meaningful
and that holds out the hope
for a genuine settlement of
the Palestinian issue."
Still, McGovern added,
Arafat remains convinced
that the best way to move
forward in the peace process
is through an international
conference.
McGovern, who has been
outspokenly critical of
Israeli governments in re-
cent years, endorsed either
an international conference
or direct Israeli-Palestinian
talks.
"To whatever extent the
United States has influence
with the people in the
government of Israel — and I
think it's considerable — I
think the greatest favor we
could do to the State of Israel
is to encourage them to seize
on this opportunity for a
negotiated settlement that,
at long last, could put the
terrible drain of the Middle
East conflict behind them,
that would permit them to
live at peace with their
neighbors, to live out the
admirable values of Judaism
and the admirable values of
a free and independent and
democratic Jewish state,"
McGovern said.
The notion of a two-state
solution — strongly opposed
by the Israeli government —
also was endorsed at the
seminar by former B'nai
B'rith International Presi-
dent Philip Klutznick and
former U.S. Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia Robert
Neumann.
In the audience at the
House of Representatives
Rayburn Office Building
George McGovern:
No doubts.
were congressmen, their
legislative aides, journalists,
academics and others. The
session underlined the in-
creasingly more active and
visible role played by
American Arab groups in
Congress.
"I came out for a two-state
solution a long time ago, and
I came out for a two-state
solution as a Zionist and an
American," said Klutznick,
who is also President
Emeritus of the World
Jewish Congress and a
former National Chairman
of the United Jewish Appeal.
Klutznick predicted that a
Palestinian state living in
peace next to Israel would
eventually exist. "What is
happening right today in the
Middle East, is an example
of what patience can pro-
duce," he said. "There is a
Palestinian state in the pro-
cess of being born. It will be
born in some form or an-
other."
Neumann served as the
Bush administration's tran-
sition adviser at the State
Department and today is
head of Middle East Studies
at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies, a
Washington think tank. He
said the Bush administra-
tion "was right in taking se-
riously the Shamir initiative
even though Mr. Shamir, in