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Article: Eban Defends Peace Process
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- Israel Faxx
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- February 6, 1995
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By Barbara Schoetzau (New York)
In a meeting with a group of New Yorkers interested in international affairs- -members of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, former Israeli statesman Abba Eban strongly defended the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The former foreign minister called Thursday's summit between King Hussein of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat a meeting that was unimaginable only a few years ago.
Eban, who has long been identified with the so-called "dove" faction of Israel's governing Labor Party, has advocated an Israeli withdrawal from most of its ...