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oshe Ram, Israel's U.S.
consul general for the
Midwest, is "cautiously
optimistic" for peace after
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's
death, but it will take time.
"The United States and the
European Union would like to think
of a resolution of the conflict," the
Chicago-based Israeli ambassador
told a group of 50 at the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield on Dec. 8. "I would like
to be a little cautious."
What is more important, he asked:
Go full speed ahead with any kind
of negotiation, or to have the
Palestinians put their house in
order?
"I don't think we should rush,
because [British Prime Minister]
Tony Blair is trying to rush every-
thing and start with an international
conference already," he said. "The
Palestinians should, first of all, elect
their president, and he needs to

build the kind of mechanism which
will be able to negotiate."
Ram said the next Palestinian
Authority president would need
coalition building skills to control
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Fatah
movement's Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades and other terrorist organi-
zations that "represent" the
Palestinians who do not recognize
the State of Israel.
"Who can make any kind of deci-
sions when there are 13 or 14 armies
running around?" Ram asked.
Moderate Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestine Liberation Organization
chairman and part of the "old
guard" clique around Arafat in
Tunisia, is leading in the Palestinian
presidential polls.
But Marwan Barghouti, serving
five life terms in an Israeli prison for
terrorist murders inside Israel, repre-
sents the "new guard" of Palestinian
leaders. He's the West Bank leader of
Fatah.
This new guard includes P.A.
Minister for Security Mohmoud
Dahlan and West Bank Head of
Preventive Security Service
Jibril Rajoub; both have
served time in Israeli pris-
ons. Barghouti may with-
draw his name from the
race, said Ram, but "even-
tually, the new generation
will take over."

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"The Palestinians
should, first of all,
elect their president,
and he needs to
build the kind of
mechanism which
will be able to nego-
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Speaking at the JCC in West Bloomfield, Israel's
Midwest Consul Moshe Ram proposes Mideast cau-
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