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L
ordan's King Hussein and
Israel's Prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin signed their
"Washington Declaration"
on the White House lawn July 25,
Congress was getting a piece
of the Mideast peace action, as
well.
House-Senate conferees were
preparing amendments to the for-
eign operations bill — the pri-
mary vehicle for American
foreign aid — that would begin
the process of rewarding Jordan
for its willingness to make peace
with Israel. Those rewards will
include a phased reduction of Jor-
dan's $900 million in debt to this
country. Major pro-Israel groups
sent out preliminary signals that
they will not oppose movement
in that direction — as long as it
is incremental.
"We are going to support the
foreign aid bill in its entirety, in-
cluding Jordanian debt relief,"
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said Steve Grossman, president
of the American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee. "But we as-
sume it will take place in stages,
over a period of time."
Forgiving all of Jordan's debt
— and expanding U.S.-Jordan-
ian economic and military ties —
will depend, he said, on contin-
ued progress toward a full piece
with Israel.
Some congressional leaders
also are interested in expanding
the U.S.-Israel free trade agree-
ment, which allows for the duty-
free exchange of goods between
Israel and the United States, has
provided an important economic
boost for Israel, according to Is-
raeli officials. Now congress
thinks it can do the same for the
entire region. Legislators believe
that could help guarantee the
peace treaties that now seem al-
most inevitable.
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rdinary people play a part
in great diplomatic events?
Although this week's ex-
traordinary meeting be-
tween King Hussein and Prime
Minister Rabin in Washington
was the result of powerful eco-
nomic and political tides sweep-
ing through the Mideast, a new
kind of "public diplomacy" be-
tween American Jewish activists
and Jordanian officials con-
tributed to the diplomatic break-
through.
Thomas Smerling, the execu-
tive director of the Washington-
based group, Project Nishma,
has been right in the middle of
efforts to use public diplomacy to
supplement official talks between
Israel and her neighbors.
In 1992, Nishma, a group cre-
ated to promote the peace process
and Israeli security, arranged
the first joint appearance of Is-
raeli, Palestinian and Jordanian
diplomats before a group of Arab-
American and Jewish activists.
Late last year, Fayez
Tarawneh, the Jordanian ambas-
sador, dropped hints that he
might be willing to meet with his
Israeli counterpart, Itamar Ra-
binovich. The result was a Nish-
ma-sponsored dinner featuring
the two ambassadors — togeth-
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er in public for the first time. It
spoke volumes about the new op-
timism in the region.
"Arab and Israeli diplomats
were still not meeting outside the
negotiating room," Mr. Smerling
said. "Our meeting was an im-
portant incremental step toward
normalization."
When King Hussein sched-
uled a visit to Washington early
this year, Nishma began talking
to Jordanian contacts about how
to push the envelope still further.
The result was the king's first-
ever meeting with a diverse
group of Jewish leaders. It was
broadcast on prime-time televi-
sion in Jordan.
King Hussein, Mr. Smerling
said, was using the private chan-
nel opened by Jewish groups to
help prepare Jordanians for the
move toward peace.
"By building relations and by
providing some of the occasions
for these kinds of meetings," he
said, " we served as catalysts to
accelerate a process that both
sides were ready for."
Recently, Mr. Smerling re-
turned with a Nishma delegation
from a Mideast swing that in-
cluded the first-ever meeting in
Damascus between a Jewish
group and a Syrian foreign min-