VOL. XXXVIIINO. 1616 JANUARY 1995

The Political Scene

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 both...