THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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George Ball Seeks Decisive Initiative
for A Middle East Peace Settlement
By WILLIAM SAPHIRE
N E W YORK
(jTA)-George W. Ball. who
serve as U.S. under-
secretary of state from
1961-1966 and ambassador
to the United Nations in
1968, has warned that with-
out "a decisive American in-
itiative" that will set forth
e _framework, if not the
tails, of a peace settle-
ment, the Middle East im-
passe will not be broken
and the .Geneva Conference
will "disintegrate" with ca-
tastrophic consequences for
all nations in the Middle
- East and probably for the
entire world.
Ball stated his views in a
lengthy article titled "How
to Save Israel in Spite of
Herself" published in the
April edition of Foreign Af-
fairs Quarterly. "The ques-
tion," he wrote, "is no long-
er whether the United,
States should contribute to
assuring Israel's survival
and prosperity, that goes
without saying.
"It is rather how we
Americans, in approaching
the problems of the-Middle
East, can best fulfill our re-
sponsibilities, not only to Is-
rael and to ourselves. but
also to peoples all over the
world whose well-being
could be seriously endan-
gered by further conflict"
in the Middle East.
Ball envisioned an Ameri-
can initiative grounded in
Security Council Resolu-
tions -242 and 338. He stated
his belief that the final set-
tlement must contain Is-
raeli withdrawal from the
Arab territories it captured
in 1967 in exchange for full
recognition and normal rela-
tions with its neighbors. He
saw the creation of a West
Bank Palestinian state and
a negotiated solution of the
conflict over Jerusalem as
essentials of a final settle-
ment.
Ball viewed the Geneva
conference as the most
likely instrumentality for
achieving a full peace settle-
ment.. He warned, however,
that "the parties will never
come anywhere near agree-
ment by the traditional
proCesses of diplomatic
haggling unless the United
States first defines the
terms of that agreement, re-
lates them to established in-
ernationsl principles, and
Al.makes clear that America's
continued involvement in
the area depends upon ac-
ceptance by both sides of
the terms it prescribes."
According to Ball "asser-
tive United States diploma-
cy" is required because
"the relatively impotent
governments in the key
Arab countries and in Is-
rael will never by them-
selves be able to devise a
compromise solution" and
because "there is by no
means a unanimous desire
for peace on either the
Arab or Israeli side."
The former diplomat ac-
knowledged the serious do-
mestic political difficulties
According to Ball, "the
national decision Ameri-
cans must make is quite
clear: it is not whether we
should try to force an un-
palatable peace on the Is-
raeli people, but rather how
much longer we should con-
tinue to pour assistance
into Israel to support 'poli-
cies that impede progress
toward peace and thus ac-
centuate the possibility of
war, with all the dangers
,t
GEORGE BALL
the U.S. government would
face if it took initiatives
that were unpalatable to
many on both sides of the
Middle East conflict. "Be-
cause many articulate
Americans are passionately
committed to Israel, the
slightest challenge to any
aspect of current Israeli pol-
icy is likely to provoke a
shrill ad hominem re-
sponse," he wrote.
"To suggest that America
should take a stronger and
more assertive line in the
search for Middle East
peace is to risk being at-
tacked as a servant of ei-
ther Arab interests or of
the oil companies, or being
denounced as anti-Israel,
or, by ea careless confusion
of language, even con-
demned as anti-Semitic."
Nevertheless, he as-
serted, "our President must
take the political heat from
powerful and articulate pro-
Israeli domestic groups. It
means that as a nation we
must be prepared to accept
abuse and balme from both
sides, permitting local politi-
cians to save their own
skins by attacking Ameri-
can arrogance and imperial-
ism."
Ball acknowledged that
"for her own security, Is-
rael can accept nothing less
than an unequivocal Arab
commitment to peace and
full recognition together
with adequate safeguards,'
yet in view of the primacy
of the issue in Arab poli-
tics, leaders of the key
Arab nations can give no
such commitments without
the assurance of an Israeli
withdrawal from the terri-
tories she seized in 1967."
In that connection, Ball
wrote, "Our country must
make crystal clear to the
more moderate Arab states-
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt
and Jordan that it will use
its leverage in the search
for peace but not unless
those states make clear
their acceptance of Israel's
sovereignty. At the same
time, Israel must be made
to understand that a continu-
ance of the present stale-
mate is more dangerous
than the concessions re-
quired for peace."
The writer was critical of
"some" Israeli politicians
who "wish to avoid any ne-
gotiation in the wistful hope
that Israel will be able to
hang on permanently to the
territories she seized in
1967."
that holds not only for Is-
rael but for the United
States and the other indus-
trialized democracies of
Western Europe and
Japan...
"The unhappy dilemma
of Israel is that, so long as
she refuses to give up the
territorial gains from her
1967 conquest and thus pre-
vents possible progress to-
ward peace, she must con-
tinue to remain a ward of
the United States.
Friday, April 1, 1977 15
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