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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The U.S.-Arab War of Words Against Israel

By ARNO HERZBERG

(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)

Too much was expected
from the trip Egyptian Pres-
ident Anwar Sadat made to
Jerusalem. In the euphoria
that accompanied this de-
monstrative diplomacy
everyone overlooked the
fact that Sadat, in his
speech to the Knesset, did
not deviate one bit from the
Arab demands of the last 30
years and that this trip was
one of those calculated
propaganda moves meant to
convince the world that
Egypt has done everything
for peace by promising it
and that it was now up to
the Israelis to satisfy Arab
demands.
Has any country since
World War II given up land
it acquired by conquest? Did
Russia? Did India? Did
Egypt
Hussein? Did
evacuate the Gaza Strip she
occupied in 1948?
Israel did not conquer any
territory. In the fight for her
existence she had to occupy
the territories where the
aggressors came from. The
Arabs could not win their
four wars. Is diplomacy now
the continuation of those
wars?

and always tries to solve
problems by giving in to
those who shout the loudest.
At first, the proposals
Premier Menahem Begin
brought to Washington
were acceptable to Carter as
a basis for negotiations.
When Sadat did not agree
(without making any
counter proposals), Carter
changed his mind.
Since then, the prop-
aganda emanating from
Washington has obscured
the question of whether it is
in America's long-term in-
terest to behave like Carter
does by being a partner in
the negotiations leaning
toward the Egyptian side.

Israel's evacuation of
the West Bank and the
creation of a Palestinian
entity can only open the
Middle East to Russian
influence and mischief. If
Israel's population cen-
ters are under the guns of
a hostile "entity," an
armed conflict incited by
Russia would pot be far

off and it would result in
an East-West confronta-
tion.

•In the torrent of words
coming out of Pennsylvania
Avenue many sides of the
Arab-Israeli conflict are
obscured, explained away or
glossed over. This war of
words will go on and it must

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Too much is at stake.
Opinion polls show that a
declining percentage of
Americans believes that
America should give her
strongest support to Israel
and that a majority of those

answering states that both
Israel and Egypt have not
made enough concessions.
Without a proper and con-
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At the same time, we
should realize that, in an
emotional atmosphere,
the cry for "security" has
lost much of the initial
appeal. "Secure borders"
on which Israel depends
and which she has a right
to expect are not always
dependent on territory.
Total and complete de-
militarization of returned
territories can be part of
security. Exchanges of
populations can be vital.

For years and years, for
two-thirds of Israel's exis-
tence, the Arabs had all the
territories they now de-
mand and there was no
peace. But Israel would
have been wiped out in the
1973 war -if that war had
been fought with the 1948
or 1967 borders.
Sadat demands, and so
many agree, that Israel
should demonstrate "some
degree of trust and confi-
dence in the goodwill of the
other side." But how much
trust can anybody have if, at
the first sign of disagree-
ment, the Egyptians start
packing and leave a confer-
ence convened to discuss
peace and peaceful condi-
tions?
The world easily forgets
that, only a few months ago,
Sadat embraced PLO leader
Yasir Arafat on one of his
frequent" visits to Cairo.
After Sadat's friend was
gunned down in Cyprus by
the same PLO, the Egyptian
government revoked the
favorable status Palesti-
nians had previously en-
joyed. This edict was never
enforced, a fact that speaks
for itself.
It is one of the ironies and
tragedies of history that at
the moment when both Is-
rael and Egypt start to talk
Washington has an ad-
ministration which ad-
vances policies that are rid-
dled with inconsistencies,

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