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WORLD, Page 41World NotesMIDDLE EASTPiecemeal Peace
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.
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.