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taining the intifada and using softer
language to disarm Israel while pur-
suing its traditional objectives.<--

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■America's role should be to rally support
for the development of the autonomous
area, insisting that most of these funds
come from the Arab world. It should use its
influence with the moderate Arabs to end
their boycott of Israel, and to encourage
Palestinian restraint. It should be available
at times of deadlock, but without returning
to its dominating role. And it should orga-
nize plausible international sanctions
against terrorism and make clear to the
PLO that this is a key test of its seriousness.<--

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■What America must not do is to offer its
military forces as the deus ex machina for
solving every security issue. Nothing would
more undermine the willingness of the
American people to support the peace pro-
cess than a permanent stationing of U.S.
combat troops, especially in the heavily
populated territories on the West Bank,
where they could easily repeat the experi-
ences of Beirut.<--

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A formidable agenda thus lies ahead. Li-
keall diplomatic documents, the agreement
signed in Washington represents a compro-
mise which must be compared not with
what each side would consider ideal, but
with what would exist in the absence of the
agreement. All the parties must now learn
to live with what they have built, which is
quite different from what is familiar to
them. As a first step, the spirit shown at the
emotional signing should be a big help in
getting the parties to their destination.<-

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["POSTE APPELE: PAS D'IDENTITE 1993-09-18 00:50 63-96 S BIEN RECU #4", "[A]", "INO413 henry", "DEPT. in PAGE-3", "of Arafat's torturous journey, which\nhad finally brought him acceptance\nas a world leader on a level with the\nother protagonists. President Clin-\nton's dignified chairmanship of the ceremo-\nny and the Russian foreign minister's mini-\nmal role also testified to the unchallenged\nglobal leadership that is now America's. <--", "Only the most churlish or fanatical would\nrefuse to join the almost palpable hope ex-\npressed at that historic ceremony. On the\nother hand, statesmen who base their poli-\ncy on the expectation of recurrent miracles\nusually suffer shipwreck. In the years\nahead, the idyll on the White House lawn\ncan only be fulfilled if all the parties con-\ncerned apply its spirit to resolving the nag-\nging questions which remain. For example,\nwhat exactly was being recognized by each\nparty? Was it premature (however un-\navoidable) to invest Arafat with the aura of\na head of state three years after his support\nof Iraq in the Gulf War, and on the basis of\n\"granting\" Israel a status that is the auto-\nmatic prerogative of nearly every other na-\ntion? Was the euphoria in which we all", "[15]", (((MORE))))", "P.4", "SEP 17 '93 05:54PM 2123505146"]

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may be for some of our more missionary
experts to accept. But what America should
do-and is the only country in a position to
accomplish-is to use the confidence of
both sides to create the conceptual frame-
work for progress. America alone has the
ability to reconcile the clashing notions of
sovereignty, and perhaps even to create ar-
eas of mixed sovereignty where the popula-
tions are particularly intermingled. It
should hold the line against outside inter-
vention, making clear to traditional friends,
especially to Israel, that the peace process
strengthens America's commitment to their
future, and making clear to traditional ad-
versaries that continued moderation is the
only road to progress. <-

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The ceremony at the White House
was made possible, paradoxically, by
exhaustion: material exhaustion on
the part of the PLO; psychological
exhaustion on the part of Israel. This
is why all the truly contentious issues
have been set aside-borders, settle-
ments, refugees, and Jerusalem.
Even the mutual recognition on

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which the agreement is based is am-
biguous. Israel has recognized the
PLO but seems to believe that it has
not recognized a Palestinian state
and that it can choose the representa-
tives with whom it is prepared to
deal. This is surely an illusion. I have
in the past expressed grave reserva-
tions about the consequences of cre-
ating a Palestinian state. But after
Arafat has been received at the
White House on an equal footing
with Rabin and elections are held in
the occupied territories, a Palestinian state
is inevitable sooner or later. And its leaders
will emerge from the elections.<--

At the same time, Arafat, with the best
will in the world, will be unable to endow
his recognition with the nearly mystical sig-
nificance given to it by many Israelis. Any
political leader depends on his constituen-
cy. And in the past, the PLO has been an
umbrella organization including terrorists,
rejectionists, and radicals, many of whom
have condemned the agreement and are
unlikely to ever be converted to views con-

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