George Brown, the number two man in the British Labor Party, is trying to convince Iraqi leaders to accept a peaceful settlement with Israel the Telegraph reported from Beirut yesterday. Mr. Brown, a former Foreign Secretary, is touring Mideast capitals. He was due in Baghdad today and will visit Israel later this week. The Iraqi leadership is taking an intransigent line and clearly anticipates a full scale war with Israel, the paper said. According to the Telegraph, the Iraqis are saying privately what Egyptian leaders say only in public. “One factor that has led to this is that it now appears that the long-standing civil war between the Iraqi central government and the Kurdish rebels in the north is about to be settled,” the Telegraph reported, and the border dispute with Iran has cooled down too. These circumstances would allow Iraq to deploy more troops against Israel.
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