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Friday, June 10, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Purely Commentary
By Philip
Geographic Realities Marred by the Arab's Intransigence
and Territorial Greed . . Twenty States With an Additional
PLO Aspiration Wouid Deny Breathing Space to Tiny Israel
Slomoviti
Ad Libbing is Not the Path to Diplomatic Sobriety
President Jimmy Carter had already stirred several hornets nests with his numerous
comments on the Israel-Arab conflict. His continuous emphasis on the Palestinians, on
their "right to a homeland," on Israeli withdrawal from administered territories,
needed clarifications. The mere introduction of the Palestinian theme already spelled
damage for Israel. It is not a one-sided issue. It has many irrevocable aspects.
But when the President injected the matter of refugees and compensation for them,
obvioulsy without having studied the entire matter properly, he gave proof that he needs
more time to study the facts and he did not permt himself the obligation to be better
informed.
William Safire, in a column four days after the President's unfortunate remarks at a
press conference on May 26, wrote as follows in the New York Times under the heading
"Eyeless in Gaza":
The President blundered last week when he saki, "Resolutions coming from the
Security Council spelled out very clearly . . . the right of the Palestinians to have a
homeland." He was wrong; although the Arab-dominated General Assembly has
passed resolutions galore condemning the Israelis, the Security Council—where the
United States votes—has never said —any such thing about homelands or withdrawal
to 1967 lines.
This was no slip of the lip, since the President tied it to Israeli acceptance of
Security Council resolutions as a basis for negotiations. Mr. Carter's entire argu-
ment was based on a wrong assumption, as White House aides later grudgingly con-
ceded.
The problem is that President Carter is wiling to ad lib freely about negotiations
he does not yet understand. Can't somebody take him aside and explain that igno-
rance of the history of the debate is no excuse, and that the too-active United States
middleman role gives the Arabs—who do not want to negotiate directly with Is-
rael—a victory before the negotiations begin?
This is exactly what has happened. How else could a President who properly eval-
uated a painful-problem blundered as Carter did with his "compensation" comment?
When the President said, in his press conference comment, May 26, that the UN resolu-
tions "include the right of the Palestinians to have a homeland, to be compensated for
losses that they have suffered" he appeared to be singling Israel out as the villian who
had expelled Arabs in order to annex property. He was no longer dealing , wih his fa-
vorite theme of Prophecy in which Jewish statehood is rooted.
Even the refugee problem must not be judged without studying the true facts. Israel's
statehood was reborn by international decision, and the Arabs who had fled from the
reborn state were advised by their peers to run, wth the expectation of returning to
acquire all that Jews had established. Then they declared war. and whatever security
was attained by Jews was the result of resisting the attacks from cousins who were
given a state of their own, in Jordan. That's where the Palestinians are. There are Pa-
lestinians also in Israel, and they include Arabs as well as Jews. Jews also were Palesti-
nians before they became Israelis and the facts of history must not be ignored, not even
by the President of the United States.
Israel must deal with Jordan, her neighbor, and the readiness for such negotiations
has been expressed emphatically. A report from Lebanon two weeks ago revealed that
Syrian President Hafez al Assad had emphasized to President Carter that Jordan. as a
separate sovereign country, must not become a part of the Jordanian-Palestinian state.
In that report Mahmoud Labadi, a spokesman for the PLO, was quoted saying: "Mr.
Carter should also specify the political status of the Palestinian homeland...We refuse
federation with the Hashemite kingdom of Jotdari."
It is clear that there can be no agreement based on conflicting comments and views
imposed from the outside upon the President of the United States. As long as there are
serious differences which are marked by bitterness there can be agreement only when
both contending parties talk to each other. Who ever heardof a peace among con-
tenders when one of the parties in the dispute will not confront and speak to the other?
The 20 States Who Begrudge Israel
the Elementary Right to Life
populations to exchange visits. Will that time come soon? An ad lib free speech attitude
won't attain it.
The Atab World Versus Israel
Country
Leaders
Land Area 1
(sq. miles)
1974 1
Population
1 Algeria
Military revolutionary council-
dominated 1-party republic
Pres. Houari Boumedienne
919,595
16,275.000
2 Bahrain
Sheikhdom
Emir Isa Bin-Sulman Al-Khallfa
Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khallfa
430
250,000
3 Egypt
Military dominated 1-party
republic (Arab Socialist Union)
Pres. Anwar Sadat
V.P. Lt. Gen. Husni Murbarak
386,000
37,000,000
4 Iraq
Ba'ath party dominated revolu-
tionary council republic
..-
Pres. Hassan Al-Bakr
Ba'ath Chairman Saddam
Hussein
167.925
10,765,000
5 Jordan
Constitutional monarch
King Hussein
P.M. Zaid al-Rifal
37,738
2,660,000
6 Kuwait
Sheikhdom
Emir Sabah As-Salem As-Sabah
P.M. Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed
As-Sabah
7,780
990,389
7 Lebanon
Republic .•
Pres. Suleiman•Franjleh
P.M. Rashid Karami
4,000
3,100,000
8 Libya
Military revolutionary council-
dominated 1-party republic
(Arab Socialist Union)
Pres. Muammar Qaddafi
P.M. Abdel Salem Jalloud
679,362
2,259,000
9 Mauritania .
Mauritanian People's Party-
dominated 1-party republic
Pres. Mokhtar Quid Daddah
397,950
1,290,000
10 Morocco
Constitutional monarchy
King Hassan II
171,835
16,880,000
11 Oman.
Sheikhdom
Suitan QabUs Ibn Said
12 Qatar
Sheikhdom
Emir Khallfa Ben Hamad AI-Thant
Absolute Monarchy
King Khalid Ibn Abdel Aziz
13 Saudi Arabia
82,000
-
750,000
8,500
170,000 -
830,000
8,697,000
246,201
3,080,000
Crown Prince Fand Ibn Abdel
Aziz
14 Somalia
Military revolutionary council-
Maj. Gen. Mohammed Slad Bare
dominated republic
15 Sudan
Military revolutionary council-
dominated republic
Pres. Jaafar Numeiry
967,500
12,427,795
16 Syria
Ba'ath party-dominated republic
Pres. Hafez Al Assad
71,468
7,174,000
17 Tunisia
Republic
Pres. Habib Bourguiba
63,379
5,641,000
18 United Arab
Emirates
Federation of sheikhdoms
Pres. Emir Zaid Ben Suitan Al-
Nahayan
32,000
350,000
Lt. Col. Ibrahim Hamdl
75,300
6,471,893
Salem Ali Rubaya (Chair., Pres.
Council
P.M. Ali NaSser Mohammed
Hasani
130,066
1,590,000
5,279,029
137,821,077
V.P. Emir Rashid Ben Said .
19 Yemen Arab
Republic (North)
20 People's Dern. Rep.
of Yemen (South)
It is not only ironic but comic that people with such amassed wealth should begrudge
living space to a neighbor already established as a sovereign state.
The accompanying chart presents the facts as they flourish for the Arab states. (PLO
apparently aspires to become the 21st Arab state). They have it all, except the small
area that is Israel. But to Israel they would deny breathing space.
This, too,.-is offered for President Carter's attention.
Israel craves for good neighbors to live with in peace, to do business wth, for their
' Form of Government
Military revolutionary council-
dominated republic
National Liberation Front-
dominated 1-party republic
Arab League Total
Israel
Republic
Pres. Ephraim Katzir
P.M. Yitzhak Rabin
7,993
(34,000)
3,360,000
Social Scientist Urges Jews to Continue Professional Careers
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1977, JTA Inc.)
A New York social scien-
tist, discussing career pros-
pects for Jewish college
graduates, has predicted
that demand for qualified
professionals should exceed
the supply by 1985 and that
by 1990, "a shortage-of col-
lege graduates" relative to
job market demand for
them should develop.
The projection was made
by Dr. Seymour Weisman,
a long-time member of the
City University of New
York political science facul-
ty, at a meeting of the
American Jewish Corn-
mittee education committee
in New York. He spoke
against a background of con-
tinuing reports that hun-
dreds of Jewish college
graduates, particularly in
the humanities, have been
unable to find jobs in their
fields since the start of the of some 90 million would in- should continue their pat- Jews have "already ex-
1975 recession. -
crease by 25 percent by
tern of college attendance. 'celled."
Corporate executive
1985 and that 60 percent of
He said "new as well as re-
Predicting that the num-
in suites of many major Amer-
all
job
openings
then
will
re-
placement
jobs
will
be
n
acement
pl
ican firms continue to have
ber of college graduates quire college graduates, Dr.
- professional,
the technical,
few Jewish members, par-
would decline in the years
ahead, that the present Weisman said that for such managerial and adminis- titularly in big steel, oil,
total American work force reasons Jewish youth trative fields," in which coal and insurance, the lat-
ter with the exception of
sales. But, Dr. Weisman
said, the newer tech-
nological fields, such as
electronics, computers, eco-
logy and medical equip-
ment are more receptive to
Jewish employes.
JNF-Planned Canada Park Deemed a Successful Project
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
The best measure of the
success of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund's "Canada
Park" is the fact that the
name has already—in less
than two years—become a
household word for tens of
thousands of families in Je-
rusalem and in the greater
Tel Aviv area.
Canada Park, the JNF's
most ambitious recreational
project, is a huge (in Is-
raeli terms) recreational fa-
cility planned and land-
scaped by the JNF near Lat-
run, midway between Je-
rusalem and the coastal
plain.
Work began on it soon
after the Yom Kippur War.
It is by no means com-
pleted yet, as several adja-
cent areas are planned to
be added to the initial park-
land area of 1,000 dunams.
But that initial park has al-
ready comfortably ab-
sorbed. relaxed and enter-
tained over 30,000 Israelis
on Independence Day ear-
lier this year, and thou-
sands more frequent it each
Shabat—and weekdays
too—picnicking, exercising,
or merely communing with
nature. -
The overall guideline of
planning the park, said
JNF region director Mor-
dechai Ruab, has been to
blend the man-made facil-
ities as much as possible in-
to the existing landscape
and scenery.
Roman underground aque-
ducts are modernized and
an electric pump installed
to provide natural looking
man-made lakes and water
courses—the water coming
from ancient underground
springs which supported c iv-
ilization at nearby Emmaus
thousands of years ago.
For children there are
tree houses, for picnickers,
tables and stools—all fash-
ioned out of wooden logs
and blending harmoniously
into the surroundings.
Eventually Canada Park
itself will extend over 4,000
dunams embracing the his-
toric valley of Aydlon
where, as the Bible relates,
Joshua successfully prayed
for the moon to stand still
in its course. It will be
linked to some 20,000
dunams of JNF-planted for-
ests of Shaar Hagai on thi
Israeli side of the pre-1967
line reaching to the kibut-
zim of Kiryat Anavim and
Neve Ilan on the way up to
Jerusalem.
The park is an arch-
eologist's delight, with JNF
workers constantly turning
up interesting finds from
the Hasmonean, Roman,
Crusader and Byzantine pe-
riods. Groups of youngsters
who visit the park are en-
couraged to spend half a
day on digs sorting through
shards and looking for
coins.