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- <text id=89TT2497>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: World Notes:Middle East
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- MIDDLE EAST
- Piecemeal Peace
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Middle East is never short of peace plans, only of
- peace. Last week both the Israeli government and Palestinian
- groups were engaged in heated internal discussions over the
- latest proposal for holding elections in the occupied
- territories. Forwarded by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the
- plan loosely parallels an election scheme put forth last April
- by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. But Mubarak's version
- includes some provisions that the Israeli leader has already
- rejected, including the participation of Palestinians in East
- Jerusalem and the exchange of land for peace.
- </p>
- <p> West Bank leaders and the Palestine Liberation Organization
- were debating whether Mubarak's deliberate omission of any
- reference to an eventual Palestinian state was too much of a
- sop to Israeli sensibilities to warrant acceptance. They are
- also concerned because the P.L.O. is excluded from direct
- participation. For their part, four senior Cabinet officials
- could not even agree whether to acknowledge the Egyptian
- proposal, since doing so would in effect admit that the Shamir
- plan had been supplanted. Insisting his own initiative must be
- answered first, Shamir's dour response to Egypt: You agree to
- the principles of our plan, then we can discuss yours.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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