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be glad to release the
prisoners including Sheik
Obeid. They just want to
know the status of their
missing soldiers."
Dr. Freedman said the no-
tion of Israel negotiating
with those they considered
terrorists in the past makes
more sense now than ever.
He said the inclination
might have been to go to the
United States for help, to
ask the U.S. to do the nego-
tiating for them. But the
U.S. is still feeling the heat
from the Iran-Contra scan-
dal, and is less enthusiastic
about getting directly in-
volved if they don't have to.
The Syrians, he added,
want back into the civilized
world. One of the ways to get
back and out of the terrorist
image is to work on getting
Israel's hostages released.
Dr. Freedman said the
prisoner exchange issue is
unique for Israel because,
unlike the peace process,
everyone wants to see it
work.
Political parties that
wouldn't agree on anything
having to do with peace
negotiations are willing to
do almost anything to bring
the Israeli soldiers home.
This willingness to unify
over the prisoner issue can
be interpreted as a positive
sign in the long-term peace
effort, according to Dr.
Freedman.
"I don't think we'd gotten
to the point of releasing the

The issue of
prisoner exchange
is unique for Israel
because it's
something that
everyone agrees
on.

hostages that have been
freed if there wasn't some
sort of general movement
toward peace," he said. "If the
Syrians are instrumental in
getting the hostages releas-
ed, then the U.S. will ab-
solutely owe them one. The
hope then in Syria is that
the U.S. will become more
pro-Syria and back away
somewhat from Israel.
Meanwhile, Iran certainly
doesn't want to get left out
in all of this. Because if the
major regional players in a
peace initiative turn out to
be Syria, Israel and the U.S.,

the Iranians will feel
isolated."
Mr. Keyes said Iran would
like nothing more than to
become a player in the re-
gional peace process as well
as the regional economic pic-
ture.

But Iran's stumbling block
is the power of its religious
fundamentalism, a power
that is having difficulty tur-
ning its back on the hate it
has for Israel and the United
States. This, Keyes said
back in January, would
become a domestic struggle
in Iran. And this is exactly
what has come to pass in the
region.
But hostages and deals,

Robert 0. Freeman:
"A general movement
toward peace."

and now even the peace
table, have taken a global
back seat to the events in the
Soviet Union, events that
could play into the hands of
Israeli hard-liners seeking to
avoid the peace table. Now
the world will stand and
wait to see what, if any, new
Middle East policy will come
from any new Soviet
government, a government
that is redefining itself at
such a pace that new infor-
mation is often obsolete by
the time it hits the streets.
What the world is now see-
ing on an even grander scale
is that what was black is
now white and what was
white is now black. Two
weeks ago there was Com-
munism in the Soviet Union.
Today it is outlawed. Today,
the Soviet Union might not
be as united.
For now in the Middle
East, however, the hot sun
will heat up the desert
sands. And the issue of the
hostages and more impor-
tantly, the peace table, for
now might well be shaded
gray. ❑