We discussed the peace process at length. agreeing that every effort must be made to seize the opportunity to move toward a sustainable peace. I shared my concern about the unrest in the territories. my opposition to heavyhanded responses. and my support for longstanding U.S. policy of opposing the building of settlements outside the green line. Having pushed hard for years for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate. I backed the loan guarantees. but believe that they must be spent in accordance with United States policy if they are to be supported by the American public. The Prime Minister assured me that American conditions on loan guarantees are being scrupulously followed. We discussed the difficulty of combating terrorism in a democracy and th. necessity of preventing extremists from holding a veto over the peace process. I was encouraged by the Prime Ministers commitment to ending the standoff with the Palestinian deportees while remaining firm against terrorism. Foreign Minister Peres stressed that the food on which fundamentalism feeds is poverty. and that a political settlement must provide for economic development and political autonomy for the Palestinians. I was pleased to learn of the Labor governments support for my position that the gulf war brought home the necessity of curtailing arms sales to the region.
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