BAC KG ROU N D
• Loose Cannon
Continued from preceding page
The Iraqi leader has
galvanized Arab opinion,
particularly over Israel, and
his influence is likely to be
felt over a wide area long
after his disappearance from
the Middle East arena.
For pan-Arab nationalists,
Israel — like Kuwait — is a
foreign implantation, an
imperialist outpost in the
heart of the Arab nation; for
the growing body of funda-
mentalists, it represents an
intrusion by the infidel West
into the House of Islam.
To the important extent
that Saddam Hussein has
once again allowed the Arab
world to articulate these old
hatreds, the search for peace
between Israel and its Arab
neighbors has been returned
to square one.
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the United States, for the
sake of its Arab friends, will
want to be seen to be exer-
ting pressure on Israel, but
such pressure, he says, will
be more apparent than real.
"The White House knows
that the degree of pressure
necessary to make Israel
give up the West Bank and
Gaza would destabilize
Israel internally, bringing it
to the verge of civil war. This'
is emphatically not in the in-
terests of the United States
or of the West."
Nor, he believes, would a
full-blown international
peace conference provide
anything more than yet an-
other platform for rhetorical
flourishes — certainly not
the full-blown Arab-Israel
peace that has proved to be
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espite the seem-
ingly concerted
demands for a com-
prehensive Middle East
settlement, not all is
sweetness and light among
the Western allies.
A serious diplomatic rift
has reportedly developed
between the United
States and France follow-
ing French charges that
Washington failed to
pressure Israel into seri-
ous negotiations with the
Palestinians.
According to reports in
Britain this week, a
senior French. Foreign
Ministry official has
revealed bitter dis-
agreement over the issue
at what was described as
a "fiery" encounter bet-
ween U.S. Secretary of
State James Baker and
French Foreign Minister
Roland Dumas in New
York recently.
Mr. Dumas accused his
American counterpart of
being "half- hearted" in
his efforts to break down
Israeli resistance to
agreement over the
modalities for negotia-
tions. He is also said to
have pressed Mr. Baker to
urgently resume talks
with Israel, Egypt and the
Palestinians, along with
all five permanent mem-
bers of the Security Coun-
cil.
Mr. Baker reportedly re-
jected the demands, re-
sponding that the Pales-
tinian issue would remain
a matter for the U.S.,
Israel and Egypt to
resolve, whereupon Mr.
Dumas accused the
Americans of failing to
exert pressure on Israel
for "domestic political
considerations."
According to French
sources, the confrontation
that followed was "irate,"
while the State Depart-
ment sources characteris-
ed it as a "row."
It is understood that
France intends to call a
meeting of the Security
Council "as soon as
possible" to take up the
issue. State Department
sources, meanwhile, said
they would resist such a
move for "as long as
possible."
Washington is concern-
ed that a hastily convened
Security Council meeting
on the Palestinian issue
would not only divert at-
tention from the Gulf
crisis itself, but lead
Saddam to conclude that
his invasion of Kuwait
had been vindicated.
There is said to be some
disquiet about the unvar-
nished European en-
thusiasm for Arab-Israel
negotiations, an unease
that the resolve of Arab
states currently ranged
against Iraq might
weaken if the prospect of
a solution to the Israeli-
Palestinian dispute is
perceived as being more
important than ending
Iraq's occupation of
Kuwait. — Helen Davis