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Peace Now Leaders
Meet In Syria
New York (JTA) — After
meeting with Syrian and
American officials in
Damascus, a leader of
Americans for Peace Now
believes Syrian President
Hafez Assad is "very serious
in terms of wanting to deal"
with Israel.
"This is an important mo-
ment, where a lot of
possibilities are on the table
that weren't there previous-
ly," said Gary Rubin, ex-
ecutive director of APN.
Mr. Rubin was one of five
members of the organization
who was in Syria from Jan. 7
to 11.
While they traveled on in-
dividual tourist visas, the
five were received as a
group, in the closest thing to
an official delegation of an
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feeling by people who have
covered the issue that the
blatant anti-Semitism in the
Syrian press has decreased
somewhat," he said.
Still, Mr. Rubin said:
"Syria is a closed society.
There is a lot of
misunderstanding and even
fear in terms of what peace
will be like. There is fear of
Israeli economic domination,
talk of economic warfare.
There is still a lack of
knowledge about Israel.
"It's clear that there won't
be war one day and warm
peace the next day," he said.
Regarding the fate of
Syrian Jews, "the feeling
seemed to be universal that
exit visas were being issued,
that it was only a matter of
time," said Mr. Rubin.
"Everyone expected to have
them."
The Jews he spoke with,
however, expressed
"varying degrees of
nostalgia, regret and
unhappiness" concerning
the end of the Syrian Jewish
community, one of the oldest
in the world.
Wallenberg
Probe Sought
Gary Rubin:
Senses lessening resentment.
American Jewish group that
Syria has yet received.
Mr. Rubin said his sense of
the Syrian position — con-
firmed by the remarks
following the summit bet-
ween Assad and President
Clinton — was that "if Israel
is willing to recognize the
principle of Syrian
sovereignty over every inch
of the Golan Heights, then
everything is open for
negotiations," including the
possible presence of interna-
tional troops, demilitariza-
tion and the nature of the
peace.
From reading the English-
language Syrian press and
speaking with American of-
ficials who monitor the
Arabic press, Mr. Rubin
came away with the impres-
sion that "while there is cer-
tainly no love fest, Israel is
being mentioned. Its name is
being used."
"There does seem to be a
Washington (JTA) — A
member of Congress has
written to President Clinton
urging that he ask Russian
President Boris Yeltsin for a
"definitive, public investiga-
tion" into the long-
mysterious fate of RaourWal:
lenberg.
Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish
diplomat, reached almost-
legendary status in the Jew-
ish community by saving the
lives of 100,000 Hungarian
Jews during World War II.
But his postwar fate is
uncertain, with conflicting
reports that he died in a
prison camp in the former
Soviet Union or was still
alive there, until at least
several years ago.
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-NY,
who sponsored a resolution
in Congress acknowledging
the Russian government's
cooperation in providing
documents relating to
Wallenberg's fate, wrote to
Mr. Clinton on Jan. 4.
"Only through a full, in-
depth inquiry will the world
learn what happened to
Raoul Wallenberg," he
wrote.