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U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesman Press Statement

Press Statement by James P. Rubin, Spokesman
November 24, 1998

The U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Committee on Anti-Incitement, agreed to as part of the Wye River Memorandum, met for the first time today in Jerusalem. The Committee will meet on a regular basis to monitor cases of possible incitement to violence and terror and to make recommendations and reports on how to prevent such incitement.

The American members of the Committee, who are serving in a private, independent capacity, are prominent American citizens with long and distinguished records of public service. They include: Mr. Mel Levine, a former member of the House of Representatives, with a long-standing interest in the Middle East and conflict resolution, who currently practices law in Los Angeles and here in Washington; Mr. Mark Kroeker, a former deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and former Deputy Commissioner for Operations of the UN International Police Task Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Mr. Bernard Kalb, a noted journalist and former Department spokesman; and Father Theodore Hesburgh, the President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Father Hesburgh and Mr. Kroeker attended today's meeting, where they were joined by their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts and by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Edward Walker and U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem John Herbst as well as other members of the Embassy and Consulate General staffs. Mr. Kalb and Mr. Levine joined the discussion by phone. In the coming weeks, additional U.S. members of the committee may be named.

Today's meeting included discussion of the organization of the Committee's work as well as a substantive discussion of the issues facing the Committee. The Committee agreed that the next meeting of the full Committee will take place during the week of December 6.

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