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Tuesday, March 12, 1996
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Summit to bring adversaries together
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The anti-terrorism summit President Clinton is leading will bring a dramatic show of support this week for Middle East peacemaking and probably the largest turnout of Arab leaders at a conference with Israel.
Yet despite the display of solidarity, it is the terrorists who hold the world's atten
tion.
And as will the peacemakers, the terrorists surely will draw strength from tomorrow's gathering of leaders from more than 30 nations in the
nations in the
Bill Clinton
Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheik
"It makes them more desperate, while it gives them ammunition to portray that their strategy is working," said Shibley Telhami, director of Cornell University's Near Eastern studies. "If the rest of the world finds them as a threat, then they rightly can claim that they are."
Saudi Arabia is expected to send
its foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, to the summit. He will be the highest level Saudi in history to meet with a leader of the Jewish state.
Smaller Gulf states, including Kuwait, will attend as well.
"I think if you go back and look at the history of the state of Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors, I'm not sure there's ever been an event quite like this one, where an Israeli prime minister will stand on the same dais and meet in the same conference room with so many leaders of Arab countries," State Department representative Nick Burns said.
A main purpose of the summit is to shore up the confidence of the Israeli people, badly shaken by four suicide bombings.
The message to Israel: you are not alone in your grief and outrage. That will be clear from the knowledge that Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Helmut Kohl and John Major — along with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and other Arab leaders — dropped what they were doing to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel.
The whole point is just being there.
"I'm not sure there's ever been an event quite like this one."
ShibleyTelham
Shibley Tolhami Director of Cornell University's Near
Eastern studies
A handful of nations the Clinton administration accuses of sponsoring terrorism — Iran, Libya, Iraq, Sudan — weren't invited. Washington hopes the summit will encourage European allies to join in the economical isolation of Iran.
Syrian President Hafez Assad, whose regime also is on the terror list largely because it allows Hamas and other anti-Arafat Palestinian guerrilla groups to keep offices in Damascus, was asked to attend but refused.
The refusal prompted bitter disappointment within the Clinton administration, reflected in the wry comment of Secretary of State Warren Christopher that Assad's absence "will be noted."
Assad may be gambling that Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres' peacemaking government will lose power in elections May 29 and be replaced by the harder-line Likud party.
Why take a risk toward normalizing relations if Peres is on the way out, Assad may be thinking.
U. S. officials won't say this for the record, but other purposes of the summit are to give Peres a political boost for his election campaign and to bestow an election-year shine on Clinton's peacemaking credentials.
There is a danger, of course, that the summit could oversell itself, promise too much as it tries to lift Israeli spirits.
Ominously, even as summit invitations were being accepted, the Islamic resistance movement Hamas — whose bombs killed 58 people in Israel — announced it would resume its suicide operations. It also warned that Arafat's Palestinian Authority policemen had gone "too far in its attack on Hamas" after they arrested more than 500 suspected Islamic activists.
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