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JAMES D BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
W
/--
ith the latest adminis-
adminis-
tration rescue plan for
the Mideast peace talks
taking shape, Wash-
ington officials have been prob-
ing to see just how much political
latitude they have in pushing Is-
raelis and Palestinians back to
the negotiating table.
At the same time, pro-peace
process groups are quietly trying
to counter the impression creat-
ed by some community leaders
that American Jews are angry
about recent administration crit-
icisms of Israel and fed up with
the Oslo process.
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright met with a delegation
representing the Jewish pro-peace
camp at a session arranged by
Sara Ehrman, a former Democ-
ratic National Committee liaison
to the Jewish community who is
now serving as a consultant to the
Center for Middle East Peace and
Economic Cooperation.
Attending were leaders from
the Israel Policy Forum, Ameri-
cans for Peace Now, Project Nish-
ma and the National Jewish
Democratic Council. The delega-
tion was chosen, according to one
participant, "to make it clear that
these were serious, influential
people, not fringe players and
naive peaceniks."
The meeting came two weeks
after a delegation from the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations
met with Ms. Albright and ar-
gued vehemently against any
American pressure on the Ne-
tanyahu government.
At that meeting, administra-
tion officials say, Ms. Albright
was disturbed by what she saw
as the implication that the ad-
ministration had contributed to
the renewed violence by failing
to push Palestinian leader Yas-
sir Arafat hard enough to flash
the "red light" to groups such as
Hamas.
The delegation of doves had a
different message.
"As Americans and Jews, we
made the point that we fully ap-
preciate what the American gov-
ernment is doing to alleviate the
current crisis, lest there be any
other impression given by other
delegations," said one partici-
pant. "There was also an implic-
it message to the Israeli
government that they should
trust the American government
in this regard."
Ms. Albright and leading
members of her Mideast team
also met with a small delegation
rael Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) — at her request. That
came after she had canceled a
scheduled appearance before the
lobbying group's policy confer-
ence because of the crisis in the
peace talks.
The mood of the AIPAC ses-
sion was amicable, according to
sources there; the AIPAC dele-
gation focused on ways of getting
the peace process back on track
and the need for a stronger
American stance against Pales-
tinian terrorism.
Cautious
Optimism
The administration's Mideast
team is being unusually circum-
spect about the latest plans for re-
suscitating a gasping peace
process, in large measure because
they still have not worked out a
comprehensive package likely to
be accepted by both Israeli and
Palestinian leaders.
But there was a mood of very
cautious optimism in Washington
as U.S. Special Envoy Dennis
Ross headed back to the region —
a striking contrast to the gloom
that followed a tough White
House meeting between President
Clinton and Israeli Prime Min-
ister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Elements of the American plan
were laid out during that session
and at meetings between State
Department officials and a high-
level Palestinian delegation.
The administration has not yet
committed itself to a specific se-
ries of proposals.
But one thing is clear: Officials
there are pinning their hopes on
a series of confidence-building ges-
tures that they hope will include
an Israeli decision to limit or post-
pone construction of new Jewish
housing in east Jerusalem, and a
much more aggressive fight
against terrorism by Mr. Arafat.
Members of the administration
peace process team were encour-
aged by reports that Mr. Ne-
tanyahu had signaled that
construction in the Har Homa
area of east Jerusalem would not
begin in earnest until after 2000,
a statement that was viewed in
Washington as a face-saving ges-
ture for Mr. Arafat.
In conversations with the
Palestinian head and with a num-
ber of Arab leaders, Ms. Albright
stressed the new American "zero
tolerance" approach to terrorism,
and expressed satisfaction at in-
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