Premier Yitzhak Shamir of Israel plans to make a dramatic appeal to King Hussein of Jordan to enter into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
It will come during a speech he will deliver at the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations Thursday night in Miami, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned Wednesday.
Shamir will call on Hussein to open talks with Israel now, in light of the recent Arab summit meeting in Amman, Jordan. The summit showed that Egypt is no longer isolated in the Arab world because of its peace treaty with Israel, Shamir’s media and communications advisor, Avi Pazner, said at a special briefing for Israeli correspondents here.
He said Shamir would note that seven Arab countries have resumed diplomatic relations with Egypt since the summit, returning it to the Arab fold, even though Cairo has full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Pazner said that when Shamir meets with President Reagan at the White House Friday, he will concentrate on the issue of Soviet Jewry in view of next month’s summit meeting in Washington between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He will convey to the president his view that Soviet Jews, as a nationality, should receive the right to repatriation, Pazner said.
According to Pazner, Shamir also will discuss the issue of American aid to Israel with Reagan, but will approach it by urging that the United States share with Israel the “strategic burden” in the Middle East.
But he emphasized that Shamir considers his speech to the CJF as the major statement of his six-day visit to the United States. Pazner said the speech will last 40 minutes and will be in two parts — the political part, which will include his appeal to Hussein, and a part devoted to the concerns of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
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