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Washington Correspondent
I
raq's stunning conquest
of Kuwait last week pro-
ved once more that the
angry passions of the Middle
East tend to defy the best
predictions of the foreign af-
fairs experts.
But as the administration
re-evaluates its failed stra-
tegies for dealing with Iraqi
strongman Saddam Hussein,
pro-Israel activists in Wash-
ington suggest there could
also be a significant re-
evaluation of Israel's role in
the region and a thaw in
U.S.-Israeli relations.
Mr. Hussein's military
triumph injected a dose of
reality into an administra-
tion that had cherished the
hope that Hussein could be
transformed into a responsi-
ble member of the interna-
tional community.
"Our policy towards Hus-
sein was essentially to ap-
pease the bully — to look
past his outrageous, bar-
baric conduct and hope that
somehow we could get him to
change his fundamental
character," said Rep.
Howard Berman D-Calif.,
who led the quest for econ-
omic sanctions since Iraq's
use of poison gas on Kurdish
civilians in 1988. The Ad-
ministration blocked the
quest. "That policy, as a gen-
eral rule, doesn't work, and
it was a disaster in this
case."
The Iraqi blitzkrieg pro-
vided a kind of grim confir-
mation of several key
arguments that the Israelis
have been making for years,
a fact that may strengthen
their position with critics
within the Bush administra-
tion.
"This Iraqi action shatters
one of the last illusions
about countries like Iraq,"
said David Harris, Washing-
ton representative for the
American Jewish Com-
mittee. "It proves the point
that Israel has been making
all along — that the danger
in the region goes well
beyond just the Arab- Israeli
conflict. It refutes the idea
still popular in some
quarters that if you just end
the Arab-Israeli conflict,
order will come to the re-
gion. This invasion demon-
strates the fallacy of that
kind of thinking."
Since the end of the Iran-
Iraq war and the crisis over
Persian Gulf shipping, the
entire focus of U.S. Middle
East policy has been on
Israel and its problems with
the Palestinian uprising.
The new crisis, with its
implicit threat to the Ameri-
can economy through Iraq's
growing chokehold on oil
supplies, casts a new light on
the Israeli- Palestinian
situation.
Before the Iraqi invasion,
Mr. Bush and Secretary of
State James Baker had
staked much of their
credibility on finding a solu-
tion to the problems sur-
rounding the Palestinian
uprising. Now, the focus will
necessarily shift to the much
more threatening problem of
Iraq.
In the short term, the Iraqi
invasion is almost certain to
relieve some of the intense
pressure on the new Israeli
government to make major
concessions in the stalled
peace process.
. Until the Kuwait debacle,
it was widely assumed in
Washington that this week's
meeting between Israeli
Foreign Minister David
Levy and Mr. Baker would
be a difficult one — espe-
cially if Mr. Levy did not ar-
rive in Washington with
concrete proposals for mov-
ing the peace process for-
ward.