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outside the occupied ter-
ritories.
That decision was based on
concerns that participation
by Palestinians in exile
would raise the touchy ques-
tion of a so-called Palestin-
ian right of return, and es-
tablish a precedent for their
participation in later and
more substantive negotia-
tions.
Last week, the administra-
tion signaled that Israel's
decision would not add to the
strains between Washington
and Jerusalem.
In a meeting with leaders
of the American Jewish
Congress, Secretary of State
James Baker downplayed
the significance of Israel's
boycott.
"He agreed that the
American view cannot be
imposed on Israel," said
Henry Siegman, executive
director of the Jewish group.
"He agreed that Israel has
the right to hold out for its
own ground rules."
Syria and Lebanon had al-
ready announced their deci-
sion to boycott the entire_
round of multilaterals, a fact
that also helped defuse any
administration frustration
over Israel's decision to sit
out two of the sessions.
At the Washington session
on arms control, the focus
was on American and Rus-
sian experiences in years of
tough negotiations on the
limitation of nuclear
weapons and missile
technology.
"It's going exactly accor-
ding to the book," said a
spokesperson for the Israeli
delegation, which was head-
ed by David Ivry, director-
general of the Defense Min-
• istry. "Participants are
listening, mostly to the
American and Russian offi-
cials. This is a learning pro-
cess — and part of that is to
learn from the experiences of
others."
But Israeli participants
conceded that it will be
difficult to apply the experi-
ences of the two superpowers
to the Middle East context,
which continues to experi-
ence an escalating arms race
fueled, in part, by aggressive
sales tactics by defense con-
tractors hard hit by the end
of the Cold War.
According to American of-
ficials, one hope is that a
long-term process that br-
ings together Middle East-
ern nations with nations like
Japan and Canada will give
rise to multilateral pro-
grams and packages of econ-
omic incentives that will
make a political settlement
more attractive to Israel and
her suspicious neighbors.
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