Looming War in Mideast
As the clock ticks down toward war with both the United States and the European community insisting that they would prefer war to linkage, Israel could transform the logic of war into a logic of peace with a single sentence: “If Iraq withdraws completely from Kuwait, Israel will attend an international conference on Arab-Israeli peace and will make a good faith effort to achieve a just and lasting peace with its Arab neighbors and with the Palestinian people.”
Such a pronouncement, made in the critical days ahead, would not only open the door to peaceful settlements both in the gulf and in the Holy Land, it would also earn Israel the gratitude of mankind.
JOHN V. WHITBECK
Paris, France
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