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Brave New World?
Washington and the American Jewish community
are trying to play catch-up to the surprising
breakthrough.
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
W
ashington was awash
in optimism this week
as an 11th round of
Mideast peace talks
began with something that has
been in short supply since the
talks began almost two years
ago: genuine hope.
The new round of talks began
only days after the startling
news that Israel and the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization
were nearing an agreement on
a "Gaza and Jericho first" strat-
egy for Palestinian self-rule. On
Tuesday, Israeli officials indi-
cated that a document laying
out the framework for the ne-
gotiations was ready, but that
signing could be held up until
next week because of a PLO de-
cision to wait for a mutual recog-
nition agreement with Israel.
But beneath the unexpected
surge of hope were some deep
concerns about how this week's
developments will play out
when negotiators sit down and
begin to thrash out the details
of the self-rule plan. Those ne-
gotiations will be vulnerable at
every stage to what is certain to
be a stepped-up campaign by op-
ponents of the peace process,
both Palestinian and Israeli.
As the peace talks opened on
Tuesday, Israeli diplomats and
American officials seemed
aware of those dangers, and de-
termined to temper their new-
found optimism with a realistic
awareness of the obstacles still
ahead. Moreover, a new ambi-
guity clouded America's role in
the talks. How that ambiguity
is resolved will have a major im-
pact on whether this week's
hopeful developments bear fruit
in the weeks and months to
come.
An intriguing irony to this
week's developments is that the
apparent breakthrough took
place with almost no input from
Washington, despite the con-
ventional wisdom that only a
more assertive role by U.S. offi-
cials could salvage the moribund
talks. In private discussions,
some administration officials
made the case that the Clinton
administration's expanded "full
partnership" role set the stage
for the movement toward the
deal with the PLO. That role
had been sought by Israel's
prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin,
and by Arab leaders, and it was
most evident during Secretary
of State Warren Christopher's
swing through the region in ear-
ly August when he successfully
brokered a cease-fire ending the
cycle of Hezbollah attacks and
Israeli retaliation that threat-
ened to terminate the peace ne-
gotiations.
Mr. Christopher's successful
mediation, say American offi-
cials in Washington, convinced
Palestinian leadership that they
risked being left behind unless
they began to negotiate seri-
ously with Israel. But pro-Israel
sources point out that the ad-
ministration has consistently
opposed the formula for accel-
erated Palestinian self-rule in
Gaza and Jericho, a scheme that
first surfaced in secret contacts
between Israeli and PLO offi-
cials early this year.
"America's role was not criti-
cal in this," said Gail Pressberg,
president of Americans for
Peace Now. 'The PLO first pro-
How will the
administration's
peace process team
adjust to the
changed
circumstances of
the talks?
posed the Gaza/Jericho concept
at the end of March. Only when
the Israelis recognized through
their discussions with the PLO
that Rabin would get a lot of
what he wanted from them did
this really begin to move.
Throughout this process, ne-
cessity was the mother of in-
vention."
Initially, the administration
regarded the self-rule proposal
as a PLO diversion. Then, it con-
sidered the proposal a possible
symptom of internal divisions
within Israel's government, and
in particular a reflection of the
different approaches favored by
Mr. Rabin and his foreign mM-
ister, Shimon Peres.
'The administration's failure
to recognize the importance of