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much tougher, blaming PA security
forces and the Tanzim militia for the
current violence without pointing the
finger directly at Arafat.
The two reports are "hard to recon-
cile," said Martin Raffel, director of the
Israel Task Force of the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs. In the first report, he
said, "the State Department didn't rely
on Israeli accusations, but drew its own
conclusions about PA involvement. If
there is any backtracking in the new
report, it would be disappointing."
The report "does not reflect the new
realities in the region," said David
Schenker, research fellow for the
Washington Institute for Near East
Policy. "The real message of this year's
report is that at least for the time
being, political — not counter-terror-
ist — concerns hold the day."
The report also cited the usual bad
guys in the Middle East — Syria, Iran,
Iraq, Libya and Sudan, and said
Lebanon has been "unresponsive" to
American requests to apprehend suspects
_in terror attacks against U.S. citizens.

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negotiations while Palestinian violence
continues — has now been modified
to permit talking about ending the
violence, and talking about how to
resume talking.
While the initial results are negligible,
there may be grounds for encourage-
ment because diplomats in the region
— and in Washington — are more
active than they have been for months
in seeking to defuse the intifada.
Peres points out that talking with
the Egyptians and the Jordanians
about their joint initiative to end the
fighting — even if it is based primarily
on a Palestinian plan — does not con-
travene the "no talking under fire"
policy because Egypt and Jordan are
not the ones firing on Israel.
Moreover, Peres' meetings in Cairo
and Amman on Sunday, prior to his
trip to the United States, were preced-
ed by discreet conversations between
Israeli and Palestinian officials, not all
of which are public knowledge.
Palestinian Authority President Yasser
Arafat himself, in an interview with the
British newspaper The Guardian on
Monday, referred to Sharon's son, Omri,
as his "hot line" to the Israeli premier.
He also implied that his meetings
with Omri, which have been criticized
by Israel's attorney general as a breach
of state protocol, are more frequent
than the Israeli public knows.

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