çiNFINITI® of Farmington Hills YOUR INFINITI PRESIDENT'S AWARD CIRCLE DEALER 1997 INFINITI 130 Pro-Peace Groups Offer Albright Support 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. 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