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role in Middle East peacemaking.
They are not content with having
the United States taking center stage
at high-profile signing ceremonies.
They want to be inside the negotiating
room, not simply in walk-on roles or
as part of a legitimizing umbrella.
The Israelis are playing a carefully
calibrated game, which involves pro-
moting their own economic interests
with Europe while keeping the
Europeans at arm's length when it
comes to the peace process.
They want Europe to continue to
financially underwrite Palestinian
endeavors, but they also want to
ensure that European aspirations to
political arm-twisting and diplomatic
power-brokering are kept on hold.
From Jerusalem's perspective, the
Europeans are fickle at best, treacher-
ous at worst; ultimately, they are per-
ceived to be irredeemably overbal-
anced in favor of the Arabs.
The Israelis remember that France
supplied Iraq with a reactor that took

he Israeli prime minister is
enjoying a blissful honey-
moon with the United
States, but he must still
worry about placating Europe.
While Israel's relations with
Washington — based on an intricate
web of political, economic, strategic
and cultural ties — are generally warm
and cordial, its relations with Europe
are generally prickly.
True, the welcome Ehud Barak
received in Berlin and Paris last week
was far warmer than his predecessor,
Binyamin Netanyahu, could have
expected.
By vigorously pushing ahead in the
peace process, Barak has, for the
moment at least, changed the dynamic
of events and taken some of the wind
out of the European sails.
"They do not have too much room
for grandstanding right
now," said a senior Israeli
source, "but I have no
doubt that they will be
the
back in full cry ,
spotlight picks out issues
like Jerusalem and
refugees."
Beyond the diplomatic
platitudes and the bitter
memories of recent history
that inevitably infused
Barak's visit to Germany
and France, there is a dense
subtext on both sides of the
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder welcomes
divide.
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Sept. 21, as
For Barak, the impor-
Schroeder's and Barak's wives look on.
tance of Europe is, first and
foremost, that it is Israel's
Saddam Hussein to within touching
single-largest trading partner, with
distance of acquiring nuclear capabili-
Europe enjoying a significant advan-
ty during the 1980s — forestalled
tage in the balance of trade. Second,
only by an Israeli air raid that
Europe is the single-largest donor to
destroyed the Osirak facility.
the Palestinian Authority and, thus, an
They remember that the Germans'
important element in the peace
lax
export controls permitted German
process.
companies
to supply much of the
Europe has long demanded a
material
that
enabled Iraq to develop
greater role in Middle East diplomacy
its
chemical
and
biological capabilities,
— equivalent at least to that of the
which
U.N.
weapons
inspectors are
United States. European leaders want
still
not
convinced
they
have com-
to translate their financial influence
pletely
dismantled.
to
play
an
active
into political clout