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TEXAS JEWISH POST, THURSDA Y, FEBRUARY 9,1995- IN OUR 49TH YEARI
Historic Middle East Summit Reaffirms Commitment to Peace
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STRIVING FOR PEACE In Cairo last week were (l-r) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Jussein of Jordan, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
By Naomi Segal
JERUSALEM — Israel
and its three regional peace
partners — Egypt. Jordan
and the Palestine Liberation
Organization — concluded
a historic summit February
2 with a communique reaf-
firming their commitment to
the peace process and de-
nouncing terror and violence
in the region
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin. Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak. Jordanian
King Hussein and PLO
Chairman Yasser Arafat met
for more than four hours in
unprecedented talks focused
on the future of the regional
peace process.
At the conclusion of the
summit. Egyptian Foreign
Minister Amre Moussa read
a joint communique in which
the leaders reaffirmed their
commitment to a compre-
hensive peace in the region
and to fulfill the accords be-
tween them.
The leaders also called for
a prompt move “to conclude
the negotiations on the inter-
im agreement between Isra-
el and the Palestinian Au-
thority in all its aspects."
They also vowed to work
“to improve the climate and
build the confidence between
the parties."
To this end, they estab-
lished a general framework
for continued negotiations
between Israel and the PLO.
As part of that framework,
the foreign ministers of Isra-
el. Egypt, Jordan and a Pal-
estinian representative will
meet in Washington next
week.
Rabin and Arafat are also
scheduled to meet next week
at the Erez checkpoint be-
tween Israel and the Gaza
Strip.
The leaders expressed
their appreciation of the swift
implementation of the peace
treaty between Jordan and
Israel. and of Egypt’s role in
the peace process.
They also condemned “all
outbreaks of bloodshed, ter-
ror and violence in the re-
gion.
The phrasing of this clause
was believed to have been
an issue of some dispute,
according to Israeli news
reports.
Moussa told reporters that
no agreement was reached
on two major sticking points
in the lsraeli-Palestinian ne-
gotiations: the expansion of
Jewish settlements on the
West Bank and the lifting of
the closure imposed on the
territories following a Jan.
22 suicide bombing attack
near Netanya that claimed
the lives of 21 Israelis.
But Moussa said the sum-
mit had resuscitated the
peace process. “I believe the
Palestinian-Israeli peace
process is back on track," he
said.
Prior to the meeting, the
four leaders gathered at
Mubarak’s palace for Iftar,
the traditional daily sunset
meal with which Muslims
break the monthlong Ra-
madan fast.
Earlier in the day, Mubar-
ak held separate meetings
with Arafat, King Hussein
and Rabin. Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres and
Moussa joined the talks be-
tween Rabin and Mubarak.
Before leaving for Cairo,
Rabin said be would call on
Arafat to crack down on ter-
rorists operating from the
autonomous areas. Rabin
said Palestinian fulfillment
of its obligations in the self-
rule accords would deter-
mine the pace of negotia-
tions.
“We have a demand of the
Palestinian Authority, and
we will present it at every
meeting," Rabin said.
The summit took place
amid reports of deteriorat-
ing relations between Israel
and Egypt.
In a recent interview in
The New York Times, Mous-
sa had sharply criticized Is-
rael.
Moussa accused Israel of
dragging its feel in imple-
menting the autonomy ac-
cord and said the delay was
the cause for the stepped-up
terror attacks.
Syria, whose peace talks
with Israel have been at an
impasse for several months,
was absent from the summit.
Moussa said Syrian Presi-
dent Hafez Assad was not
invited because it was clear
he would not send any repre-
sentation and “we don’ t want
to embarrass him."
Peres told Army Radio that
Assad would have been wel-
come at the meeting.
“We aren’t leaving Assad
out. Assad is leaving him-
self out," Peres said. “Assad
has divorced himself from
the process of war, and he
has yet to marry the peace
process."
German Jewish Survivors See Progress—But Not Enough
By Miriam W id man
BERLIN — Kurt Goldstein
found himself in a French in-
ternment camp in 1939 after
fighting in the Spanish Civil
War.
In 1942. he was denounced
by the French, turned over to
the Germans and sent to the
Auschwitz death camp.
Mana Koenig was deported
to Auschwitz from Lodz. Po-
land, where she grew up.
Her husband. Adam, was ar-
rested in Frankfurt and sent to
the Sachsenhausen concentra-
tion camp near Berlin.
AfterWorldWarll,the three
did what to many was the un-
thinkable: They decided to stay
in the country that tried to ex-
terminate them.
Believing that a more hu-
manistic Germany could grow
out of the ashes at Auschwitz,
they settled in the former East
Germany.
Today, 50 years after the lib-
eration of the Auschwitz camp,
all three individuals see some
progress in Germany’s ability
to deal with its past.
But not enough
They are not only worried
about the rise of radical-right
politicians and parties, but
about neo-Nazi sympathies in
the German justice system.
Still, these survivors — not
only of the Nazi death camps,
but also of the failed attempt at
a Communist state in East Ger-
many —criticize, but stop short
of condemning their fellow cit-
izens.
The three spoke to a group of
foreign reporters here a few
days before this week’s com-
memorations of the liberation
of Auschwitz.
“I don’t believe in making
generalities," said Maria
Koenig, a soft-spoken woman
“German children today have
just the same chance as chil-
dren from other countries to
grow up in a democracy"
Adam Koenig focused his
criticism on the German justice
system, which he felt does not
sufficiently pursue neo-Nazis.
He cited a case that generat-
ed a worldwide uproar last year,
when a judge serving on a state
court in the southwestern Ger-
man city of Mannheim voiced
sympathy for Gunter Dcckert,
the chairman of the extreme
right-wing National Democrat-
ic Party.
Goldstein, vice president of
the International Auschwitz
Committee, said that spontane-
ous chain of candles that popped
up in major German cities sev-
eral years ago to protest arson
attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads
on homes belonging to Turkish
unmigrants was a positive sign.
But overall, he said, "There
have not been enough lessons
learned from Auschwitz."
Citing two specific cases, be
questioned why a former guard
at the Ravensbruck women’s
concentration camp was giv-
en a reparations payment by
the German government while
a former concentration camp
inmate from Eastern Europe
could not receive asylum here.
Goldstein said he believed
that the ongoing public dis-
cussion as to whether Germans
have mastered their past is ill-
focused.
“A past cannot be mas-
tered," Goldstein said. “It has
to be confronted."
And 50 years after the war,
he said, the Germans have yet
to confront their past.
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