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Committed To Oslo

Levy says the two sides in the Middle East talks
must restore order because the process is the only
path to peace.

STEWART AIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

ven as the U.S. ambassador
to Israel was saying the
Oslo peace accord between
Israel and the Palestinians
had "broken down," Israeli For-
eign Minister David Levy was in
New York affirming Israel's com-
mitment to it.
`The government of Israel sup-
ports the peace process," Levy said
through a translator to members
of the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organi-
zations. "There is no alternative
to peace. The process is difficult ...
[but Israel] is committed to acting
according to the terms of the
agreement."
What is necessary now, said
Levy, is to "restore some sort of or-
der in contacts between the two
sides. We must not allow a situ-
ation where there is no contact be-
tween them ... [because] there is
no alternative to this process."
His comments came as U.S.
Ambassador to Israel Martin In-
dyk told the U.S.-Israel Chamber
of Commerce in Tel Aviv that "the
core bargain of Oslo has broken
down — Israel was promised se-
curity and the Palestinians were
promised self-government."
Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu responded mo-
ments .later by accusing the
Palestinians of violating the ac-
cords that Israel kept.
Indyk's comments followed the
failure of U.S. Middle East envoy
Dennis Ross to end the deadlock
in the peace process, despite a
week of shuttle diplomacy — his
second in a month.
"I think what is important as
I leave the region is that there is
a very clear desire to find a way
out ... to find a way to promote
moving toward peace," Ross said
after a two-hour meeting with
Palestinian Authority President
Yasir Arafat.
Arafat reportedly told Ross that
the only way out of the two-month
crisis was for President Bill Clin-
ton to take a personal role. Arafat
repeated that assertion in a letter
to Clinton in which he called Ross'
efforts a failure.
U.S. National Security Advis-
er Samuel Berger, however, dis-
missed Arafat's plea, saying
Clinton is involved daily.
"The parties themselves have
to be prepared to make the kinds
of compromises, the kinds of com-
mitments, that would make a dra-
matic moment not only dramatic
but successful," he said.
The Palestinians demand that
before negotiations resume, Israel

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David Levy:
Defends Israel's position.

halt all settlement activity, which
it views as pre-empting final peace
talks.
Levy, in his comments to the
Presidents Conference, spelled out
Israel's terms for the resumption
of talks: that the Palestinian Au-
thority "act to combat terrorism
and eradicate the terrorists' in-
frastructure, not speak of a jihad
or holy war but rather an accord
with the peace accord. Security co-
operation is not implemented ful-
ly and we demand [also] that it be
restored fully."
Meanwhile, Israeli defense of-
ficials said its plans to raze hun-
dreds of Palestinian homes in the
West Bank are part of an ongoing
legal process to demolish illegally
built homes. Shlomo Dror,
spokesman for the coordinator of
activities in the territories said
only a few hundred homes were
involved in the past two or three
years and dismissed reports that
another 500 homes would be de-
stroyed this year. He added that
no illegally built Israeli homes
would be permitted either.
Levy was in the United States
to visit Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright. Among the
issues they discussed were reports
that the Clinton administration
was considering cutting its annu-
al $1.2 billion economic aid pack-
age to Israel and making a similar
cut in aid to Egypt. The excised
money would then be transferred
to Jordan, which has played an in-
strumental role in the peace
process.
"This is a matter which must
be resolved between the parties,"
Levy told the Presidents Confer-
ence. "I believe we will find a way
to assist Jordan" and not have the
"precedent" of cutting the aid
package to Israel. ❑

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N.Y. Jewish Week