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34
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1991
Keeping The Lid On
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
F
or Zalman Shoval,
Israel's ambassador to
the United States, it
was a week of frantic activi-
ty that ran contrary to
predictions that he would be
more an errand boy for
Jerusalem than a full par-
ticipant in the arena of
U.S.-Israeli relations.
It was no less hectic a time
for Dennis Ross, chief of
policy planning for the State
Department and Secretary
of State James Baker's chief
operative in the ongoing
drama of the Middle East
peace talks.
Mr. Ross and Mr. Shoval
were the point men for
efforts to find a compromise
formula that would salvage
the second round of Middle
East peace talks, which were
supposed to begin on
Wednesday in Washington.
In the short term, at least,
they were unsuccessful.
Israel held firm and did
not participate in
Wednesday's opening ses-
sion of the Washington talks
— thereby adding to its
public relations problem and
providing a clear setback for
an administration that is in-
vested heavily in the risky
peace process.
But in the longer term, Mr.
Shoval and Mr. Ross appear
to have averted an even
worse confrontation between
two governments with very
different perceptiOns of the
peace process, not to men-
tion agendas that could well
prove mutually exclusive.
The Israeli ambassador,
according to sources, has
been unusually effective in
conveying the reasons for
Israel's reluctance to accept
the administration's
peremptory summons to
talks in Washington.
"Shoval has been doing an
outstanding job in a very
difficult situation," said a
leading pro-Israel activist in
Washington. "He has been
working actively to find
ways to bridge the differ-
ences. Considering the
obstacles he faces, he has
been doing a remarkable
job."
According to sources, Mr.
Shoval strongly urged his
government to consider the
negative public relations
impact of the initial decision
not to attend the Washing-
ton peace conference prior to
Monday, Dec. 9.
At the same time, the am-
bassador effectively com-
municated the Jewish
state's concerns to American
officials in a series of
meetings at the State
Department.
Israel's leaders, bruised by
what they saw as the heavy-
handed distribution of in-
vitations to the peace talks,
argued that critical pro-
cedural issues were not ad-
dressed in advance — in-
cluding their insistence that
the talks quickly move to
sites in the Middle East.
But the administration
recognized that for the
Israelis, all the quibbling is
really about the growing
U.S. role in the peace pro-
cess.
Israel has always rejected
any kind of international
forum for substantive talks.
Only direct, one-on-one talks
with their Arab adversaries
can lead to a settlement, the
Israelis have argued all
along.
This week's spat over
venue and procedure was
really a visceral reaction
against the fact that the ad-
ministration has left Israel
no choice but to accept a pro-
Mr. Ross argued
that, for domestic
reasons alone, the
Shamir
government
needed to
demonstrate that it
could not be
pushed around by
the Bush-Baker
team.
cess that will make Wash-
ington a third party in the
one-on-one negotiations that
comprise the second round of
James Baker's intricate
peace process.
The choice of Washington
as the site for the second
round of talks drove that
message home in a way that
dismayed leaders in
Jerusalem.
Mr. Shoval, in his
meetings with administra-
tion officials, managed to lay
out these concerns in a ra-
tional, low-key way, sources
noted.
The administration did not
buy Israel's objections.
However, Mr. Shoval's level-
headed persistence helped
make Israel's arguments
without widening the rift
between Jerusalem and
Washington.
"Given his parameters,
he's doing what a good am-