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Jerusalem (JTA) — The last
time anyone on this bus
visited Jerusalem, the flags
hanging outside and inside
the New Orient House were
illegal.
Now, with mutual recogni-
tion between Israel and the
Palestinian Liberation
Organization achieved, the
organization's red, white,
green and black flag flies
freely.
A group of Jewish visitors
from the United States
quickly posed, using the flag
as the perfect photo
backdrop, after hearing an
official PLO spokesman ex-
plain and defend the organ-
ization's policies.,
The meeting with Maen
Areikat, head of the Pales-
tinian Information Office in
eastern Jerusalem, was
followed by one with
residents of Efrat, a Jewish
settlement in the Gush Et-
zion bloc in the West Bank.
Similar meetings with Pa-
lestinians and settlers were
part of the itinerary for each
of the 21 buses carrying
across the country the 700
American Jews par-
ticipating in the President's
Mission of the United Jew-
ish Appeal.
Meetings with represent-
atives on both sides of polit-
ical issues are not new.
But the meeting at the
New Orient House was the
first such meeting with Pa-
lestinian representatives in
their official headquarters,
the building in eastern
Jerusalem that represents
the Palestinian political
presence in the city.
"The peace process has set
a wonderful tone where peo-
ple feel they want to touch it
and feel it," said Roberta
Holland, chair of the mis-
sion, pointing to the
substantially larger number
of participants than in re-
cent such missions.
The tone was clear in the
enthusiasm that greeted
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres' appraisal of the peace
process.
And it was evident as well
in the disappointment of
some Americans when Mr.
Areikat offered less tangible
evidence of new relations
between the Arabs and Jews
than they would have liked.
Mr. Areikat had said the
Palestinians were planning
an economy that would be "a
bit protectionist," and
played down the notion of
joint Israeli-Palestinian
economic activity in the near
future. ❑

