VOL. XXXII

NO.34

29-MAY-1989

The Middle East Situation

US Secretary of State James Baker, in his first major policy statement on theMiddle East, has given substance to American claims of evenhandedness by statingpublicly - and in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)- that the Arabs are not exclusively to blame for the failure to make progresstowards ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was not so much the substance ofMr. Baker's remarks as their admonitory tone towards...