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To: Ilaine who wrote (16663)	1/17/2002 4:53:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

CB, Here's an interview with an Arab League official that appeared in today's Daily Star, a Beirut newspaper. It sums up the boundaries of the ideological struggle rather well: How Arabs can use the Beirut summit to extricate Arafat Maksoud says International monitors the way to go Former ambassador to the UN and US feels that intervention is the best step to take Micheline Hazou Special to The Daily Star LONDON: Arab leaders should make it their top priority at their March summit in Beirut to impress on the United States the “absolute necessity” of sending an international monitoring force to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to veteran former Arab League diplomat Clovis Maksoud. To Maksoud’s mind, apart from scrutinizing the two sides’ actions on the ground, the deployment of such a force would serve the vital political and legal purpose of making it clear that Israel is the occupying power in the territories rather than Palestine’s rival claimant to them. The failure of the interim accords concluded by Israel and the PLO to acknowledge that fact is ultimately what doomed them to failure, he reasoned. And he predicted that future quests for Arab-Israeli peace would prove equally elusive unless the international community makes the occupied status of the lands Israel conquered in 1967 unambiguous. Commenting on the Arab world’s seeming resignation in the face of Israel’s current onslaught against the Palestinians, and its placing of Yasser Arafat under virtual house arrest in Ramallah, Maksoud who was the Arab League’s ambassador to the UN and US in the 1980s and now serves as director of the Center for the Global South at the American University in Washington said the lack of Arab support for the Palestinian leadership was largely the product of its own past mistakes, including the “blatant ambiguities and ambivalences” that featured in the Oslo Accords. continued at dailystar.com.lb

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