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Washington (JTA) — Pales-
tinian negotiators re-
portedly have rejected a
package of U.S. proposals
aimed at convincing them to
return to the peace table.
But the United States still
appears to be optimistic that
all of the Arab parties, in-
cluding the Palestinians,
will show up here April 20,
when the ninth round of
bilateral talks with Israel is
scheduled to begin.
So far, the Israelis are the
only party to have accepted a
joint U.S.-Russian invitation
to resume the bilateral
talks, which have been stall-
ed since Israel deported 415
Palestinians to Lebanon in
December.
In an effort to persuade the
Palestinians to rejoin the
talks, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher and his
aides met here last week
with Palestinian leaders
Faisal Husseini and Hanan
Ashrawi.
Mr. Christopher re-
portedly offered them a set of
concessions, including a
speedier return of the
deportees, a . commitment
from Israel not to deport Pa-
lestinians in the future and
an easing of various restric-
tions on Palestinians in the
territories.
But the offer was con-
tingent on the Palestinians
agreeing to return to the
talks.
Ms. Ashrawi • appeared to
reject the U.S. offer. Speak-
ing in the Jordanian capital
of Amman, the Palestinian
spokeswoman said, "Human
rights and other issues are
basic rights; they are not
issues for blackmail,
negotiations or pressure."
"We feel that in order to
remove obstacles" to peace,
she said, "there has to be a
commitment followed by
concrete steps."
The State Department had
no immediate reaction to her
remarks.
Representatives of the four
Arab parties to the peace
talks — Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan and the Palestinians
— convened in the Syrian
capital of Damascus this
past weekend and agreed to
postpone a decision about
whether to return to the
negotiations with Israel on
April 20.
In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign
Minister Amre Moussa told
reporters that no decision
would be made until after
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak meets with Presi-
dent Clinton in Washington
on April 6.
Mr. Mubarak met with
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization. leader Yassir Arafat.
The PLO plans meetings in
Tunis in the next week to
discuss whether to support a
return to the peace talks.
Despite the mixed signals
from the Arab side, the
United States is putting its 4
best face on the issue.
At the State Department,
spokesman Richard Boucher
termed the meetings with
the Palestinian delegation
late last week "useful and
productive."
4
Jewish Settler
Stabbed In Gaza
Jerusalem (JTA) — For the
second day in a row, Palesti-
nians stabbed to death a
Jewish settler in the Gaza
Strip.
The attack brings to 13 the
number of Israelis killed by
Arabs in March, which has
turned . out to be one of the
bloodiest months since the
intifada began more than
five years ago.
Shaya Deutch, 38, was
stabbed in his greenhouse in
the •Kfar Yam settlement
and died of his wounds an
hour later.
The Gaza Strip had been
sealed off from Israel proper
in reaction to the stabbing a
day earlier in which Yehuda
Gawi, 49, was murdered by
two Arab construction
workers who were building a
new home for him.
After the latest attack,
security forces sealed off the
area surrounding the Kfar
Yam moshav and set up
roadblocks as part of their
manhunt for the attacker.
Settlers have become in-
creasingly frustrated with
the deteriorating security
situation and have stoned
Arab-owned vehicles in the
Gaza Strip after the attacks.