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Direct Talks Needed
Or There'll Be No Peace Progress
WASHINGTON (JTA)
 American Jewish leaders
last week told President Hosni
Mubarak of Egypt that "no
possible progress toward
peace" could be made in the
Middle East unless Israel were
involved in direct talks with its
Arab neighbors.
Mubarak was urged "to
demonstrate to his fellow
Arab leaders the advantages of
peace with Israel by giving
genuine content to that peace
 by returning his
Ambassador to Israel and by
fulfilling the commitment to
trade, tourism and cultural
exchanges contained in the
treaty between Egypt and
Israel."
"Only if the Arab world
recognizes that peace with
Israel can bring political and
economic dividends will the
circle of peace grow wider,"
said Kenneth Bialkin,
chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations.
BIALKIN LED a group of
some 20 leaders of American
Jewish organizations in an
hour-long meeting with the
Egyptian leader at the
Madison Hotel. Mubarak last
week began a three day official
visit to Washington which
included meetings with
President Reagan and other
senior Administration of-
ficials.
Bialkin, addressing
reporters after the meeting,
described as "spirited and
friendly," said the Egyptian
leader repeated his com-
mitment to peace with Israel
and voiced confidence that
progress would be made in
three areas so that he could
return his Ambassador to
Israel and promote trade and
tourism with Israel.
The tree areas referred to by
Mubarak were: a complete
Israeli withdrawal from south
Lebanon; some movement on
the Palestinian problem; and a
resolution of the dispute over
Taba, the 800-square-meter
enclave south of Eilat that is
claimed by both Egypt and
Israel.
Mubarak, according to
Bialkin, expressed satisfaction
at Israel's decision to with-
draw from Lebanon and
understanding that the
Palestinian issue posed great
difficulties for any Israeli
government.
BUT BIALKIN reported
that Mubarak appeared
troubled bv the lingering
Jacobson Proposes
Bonier Peace
Forest
JERUSALEM (JTA) 
Charlotte Jacobson, president
of the Jewish National Fund
of America, called on
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak to participate in
planting a peace forest on the
Israel-Egyptian border.
Jacobson raised the idea at
the end session of the JNF
Assembly last week. She said
the project would express the
wish of the two peoples to
coexist in peace, and it would
allow Israel and Egyptian
citizens to raise their children
without the fear of wars and
hostile acts.
dispute over Taba. Mubarak
said that Egyptian public
opinion was not yet ready for
the return of its Ambassador
to Israel, withdrawn following
the massacre of Palestinians at
the Sabra and Shatila refugee
camps in September, 1982.
In turn, the Jewish leaders
urged Mubarak to "exercise
genuine leadership" by
helping to mold public opinion
in his country to understand
the advantages of normal
relations with Israel.
Mubarak insisted that the
absence of the Egyptian envoy
from Israel did not mean an
absence of contact and
dialogue with the Jewish State,
Bialkin reported. "Mubarak
expressed confidence that his
envoy to Israel would be
returned and that trade,
tourism and cultural ex-
changes would follow," said
Bialkin, adding, "He kept
telling us to 'be patient,' and
he repeated that Egypt
'respects its commitments to
Israel 100 percent,' and never
thinks of going back on the
peace treaty."
MUBARAK ALSO told the
delegation that he recognized
there could be no solution to
the Arab-Israel conflict unless
both sides sat down with each
other and talked. "Mubarak
justified his proposals for a
Jordanian-Palestinian-
American meeting as a way of
making a 'psychological
breaking toward peace. We
told him this idea was a non-
starter and would serve to
delay the peace process, which
could only advance when
Israel met directly with Jordan
and a non-PLO delegation of
Palestinian Arabs."
The delegation of Jewish
leaders was especially
disappointed, according to
Bialkin, by two statements by
Mubarak. "One was his
defense of (PLO chief) Yasir
Arafat as a 'moderate,' a
description we told him we
could not accept," Bialkin
said.
"The other was his rather
offhand response to a question
we raised on what Egyptian
children read in their text-
books and learned at school
about Israel and the Jewish
people. Mr. Mubarak
dismissed the question as one
that would take care of itself
once normal relations with
Israel were restored. Our
response was that a better
understanding" of Israel and
"the people who live there was
essential to such a peace,"
Bialkin said.
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