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Jerusalem (JTA) —
Despite dire warnings from
hard- liners, Israel's Cabinet
voted overwhelmingly last
week to take part in the
Middle East peace con-
ference that the United
States and Soviet Union will
host next week in Madrid.
Invitations to the peace
conference, which will open
in the Spanish capital on
Oct. 30, were extended by
U.S. Secretary of State
James Baker and Soviet
Foreign Minister Boris
Pankin, whose meeting and
joint news conference here
were in themselves some-
thing of a historic event.
The announcement that
Israel, its Arab neighbors
and the Palestinians had all
agreed to attend the peace
conference was the culmina-
tion of intensive diplomatic
activity begun by Baker in
March, shortly after the end
of the Persian Gulf War.
It capped the secretary's
eighth visit to the region,
which had begun the
previous weekend with
somber news that Syria
would not participate in a
side conference on regional
issues, such as arms control
and water resources.
That the United States
now expects the conference
to result in a far-reaching
settlement involving Israel,
its Arab- neighbors and the
Palestinians was made clear
by Baker and by the White
House.
At his joint news con-
ference with Mr. Pankin, the
U.S. secretary spoke of the
"hope of a new era in the
Middle East," one "marked
by dialogue and not by
violence," by "cooperation
and not by conflict."
In Washington, White
House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater made clear that
what is being sought is
"nothing less than a just,
lasting and comprehensive
settlement of the Arab-
Israeli conflict, to be achiev-
ed through a two-track ap-
proach of direct negotiations
between Israel and the Arab
states, and Israel and the
Palestinians, based upon
U.N. Security Council
Resolutions 242 and 338."
Mr. Fitzwater said Presi-
dent Bush and Soviet Presi-
dent Mikhail Gorbachev
would attend the opening
ceremony of the conference,
after which the conference
would be conducted at the
foreign ministers level.
The guests, who will have
no flags or titles before
them, are Israel, Syria, Leb-
anon and a joint Palestinian-
Jordanian team. Two Arab
nations, Egypt and Algeria,
plan to attend only as
observers.
Mr. Fitzwater said the in-
vitations were cabled last
week to U.S. embassies in
the capitals of the invited
nations. He said Mr. Bush
expressed hope for a prompt
and affirmative response
from those invited.
Israel's affirmative re-
sponse came when-the
Cabinet voted 16-3 to attend
the conference, despite
lingering misgivings about
Palestinian representation
and the degree to which the
United States is prepared to
play the role of "honest
broker."
The vote came after seven
hours of lively, often com-
bative debate. In the end,
Ariel Sharon
called on Shamir
to resign because
he (Shamir) is
leading the nation
into danger.
the only members of the
. Cabinet opposing the con-
ference were Ariel Sharon,
the-hard-line Likud minister
of housing; Science Minister
Yuval Ne'eman of the
Tehiya party, which favors
annexation of the ad-
ministered territories; and
Rehavam. Ze'evi, a minister
without portfolio whose ex-
tremist Moledet party favors
expulsion of the Arabs from
the territories.
Finance Minister Yitzhak
Moda'i of Likud voted for his
own amendment, which
would have insisted on the
official conference invitation
spelling out that it was in-
tended to result in formal
peace treaties.
In sharp diatribes, Mr.
Sharon bewailed Israel's
likely fate as a result of the
conference, calling up
images of Czechoslovakia,
made a sacrifice of world
powers in 1938.
In a television interview,
the outspoken housing min-
ister called on Mr. Shamir
and his top ministers to
resign because, he said, they
were leading the nation into
dreadful danger.
Another contender for Mr.
Shamir's position, Binyamin
Begin, threw his support
behind attending the con-
ference but advised Israelis
to "lower their expecta-