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government has not shown
the capacity to give (ter-
ritory in dispute) and that's
where the pressure must
continue to be," said Mr.
Zogby, director of AM.
In return, Mr. Zogby said
Arab countries would end
the boycott and seek normal
diplomatic relations with
Israel.
Jessica Daher, regional co-
ordinator of the Arab Dis-
crimination Committee in
Detroit., said Arabs are
"delighted things have
gotten this far," but are
maintaining "a wait-and-see
attitude."
The problem, she said, is
that a majority of Arabs still
resent . the conditions and
limitations Israel demanded
before deciding to attend the
peace conference, Mrs.
Daher said. •
Israel has said all along it
will not negotiate with any
members of the Palestine
Liberation Organization or
with any Palestinians from
east Jerusalem.
"Israel is under none (limi-
tations); Syria is under none;
why are the Palestinians?"
Mrs. Daher said. "They're
the ones that have lost the
most. They have no
sovereignty, no territory."
Rita Shukair, a member of
the executive committee of
the Palestine Human Rights
Commission, said the Pales-
tinians were smarter than
Mr. Shamir thought.
"He thought the Palestin-
ians would never go along
with it," said Mrs. Shukair,
who lives in Kansas City,
Mo: "The Palestinians knew
they couldn't let Shamir's
conditions keep them out of
the peace process. Once the
Palestinians made the con-
cessions, Shamir had no
recourse but to go. "We
cannot be the ones accused of
not letting the peace con-
ference go through by not
participating," •she said.
"When Shamir imposed all
those conditions, I believe he
was trying to kill the peace
conference. But you have to
talk to your enemy. You
can't choose them. That's
who you have to talk to."
Mrs. Shukair, an Ameri-
can who married a PaleStin-
ian from Dier Yassin, an
Arab village just outside of
Jerusalem, believes Israel
and the other Arab countries
will be able to come to an
agreement quicker than
Israel will with the Palestin-
ians.
"The Palestinian issue
will be harder to settle," she
said, "because the Likud
party sees greater Israel in-
cluding the West Bank and
Gaza. The Palestinians want
Israel to recognize those
areas as a Palestinian state
and. guarantee them the
right of return." Sid
Shaheen, 68, a member of
Detroit's Ramallah Club, be-
lieves the trouble is between
Palestinians and Jews and
not with other Arab coup-
tries.
"The war between Israel
and Arab states has been
blown out of proportion,"
Mr. Shaheen said. "The
issue is between Jews and
Palestinians. Did Saudi
Arabia ever invade? Israel
and the Palestinians are the
only ones who should sit
down."
Mr. Shaheen wants to
return to his native
Ramallah when the country
is peaceful and "everyone
"I'd like to see
Israel give it all
(the West Bank
and Gaza) back. It
doesn't belong to
them."
Sid Shaheen
has their own piece of land."
"I'd like to see Israel give
it all (the West Bank and
Gaza) back. It doesn't belong
to them," Mr. Shaheen said.
"I was born in Palestine, my
birth certificate says
Palestine. For years, it
(Israel) has been denying the
existence of a land called
Palestine. Now it can't deny
it any longer."
Before 1948, Mr. Shaheen
lived in Jaffa, the port city
for Tel Aviv. His father
rented apartments.
"We were good friends
with Jews," he said. "When
the Jewish immigrants were
coming off the boats from
Europe, my father helped
find them apartments. The
boats were tilting over with
the weight of all those im-
migrants. Those people took
over my piece of my coun-
try."
Mr. Shaheen, who runs an
office supply store in
Westland, moved. to Detroit
in 1953. In 1967 and 1973,
he attempted to return
home: Each time, he was
prevented by the outbreak of
war.
"Peace is good for the
Jews," he said. "They can't
go on like this forever.
Sooner or later, their sup-
port - will stop. If they don't
give our land back, there
will be no peace. And if we
don't find peace, there will
be more wars in the
future." 0