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n a phone conversation
with Israeli Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin last
week, President-elect Bill
Clinton reaffirmed his desire
that there be no delay in the
Middle East peace process
during the transition period.
But over at the State
Department, where Middle
East negotiators resumed
their meetings after a pause
for the elections, the pace
was decidedly slow. All signs
suggest that little will
happen until after the Jan.
20 inauguration.
"The transition is still an
important factor," said
William Quandt, a senior
fellow at the Brookings In-
stitution. "All sides in the
peace talks will have to
make concessions for which
they expect to be rewarded.
The outgoing administration
doesn't have the clout to
provide these, and every-
body knows it."
Middle Eastern leaders, he
said, are unlikely to make
any new concessions until
after the inauguration.
"The thinking," said Mr.
Quandt, "is that if you have
a positive concession to
make, save it for the guy
who can notice and who can
provide something in
return."
But, he added, the fact that
negotiators are marching in
place does not mean they are
wasting their time.
"All the parties have an
interest in showing that the
peace process has a reason to
exist," he said. "The impor-
tant thing is that Clinton
will arrive in office with an
ongoing peace process rather
than having to start from
scratch. There's little cost in
continuing the meetings
(during the present tran-
sition period). There are
little things that can occur. I
don't want to denigrate the
process."
Meanwhile, several Israeli
negotiators have privately
indicated that the time
might be right for some add-
ed American involvement in
the process. This marks a
break with Israel's previous
insistence that American of-
ficials stay in the distant
background.
Israeli negotiators are par-
ticularly anxious to get
American help in winning
concessions from Arab

governments in return for
Israel's unreciprocated
gestures of the past few
months.
There is continuing talk of
a Middle East mission by
former Secretary of State
James Baker. This might
possibly include a deal for
Syrian strongman Hafez al-
Assad: The U.S. would
remove Syria from the State
Department's official list of
nations supporting terror-
ism in return for concessions
in the peace process.
But administration
sources suggest that a shut-
tle mission of that kind
would depend on Mr. Baker
getting clear signals in ad-
vance that Pres. Assad is
open to such a deal, and on a
tacit go-ahead from
Pres.-elect Clinton.
Meanwhile, despite any
indication that Mr. Clinton's
foreign policy team has
started developing its ap-
proach to the talks, the in-

For now, the pace
at the talks is
slow, and
expectations are
low.

coming president is being
urged by some to formulate a
more assertive American
role in the peace process.
In an interesting sidelight
to the Middle East peace
negotiations, the
multilateral talks on refu-
gees, held in Ottawa last
week, were apparently res-
cued due to the , efforts of a
Jewish activist.
Israeli negotiators had
walked out after it was
revealed that the Palestin-
ian delegation would include
Mohammad Hallaj, a mem-
ber of the Palestine National
Council.
Stephen Cohen, director of
the Center for Middle East
Peace and Economic Coop-
eration, a Montreal- and
Washington-based group
devoted to building support
for the peace process, de-
veloped a face-saving com-
promise that saved the talks
by focusing on Mr. Hallaj's
lapsed membership in the
Council. ❑

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