2 Friday, digest 25, 1918

THE DETROIT IEVOSH HEWS

Purely Commentary

By Philip
Slorhovitz

Will the Law of Justice, Leading to Peace
Come Forth From Camp David? . . . The Contrasting
Attitudes of Contending Forces to Be Considered

MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATING POSITIONS

Contrasting Facts
That Relate to the
Camp David Parley

ISSUES

Camp David will provide many tests for
diplomats and the new media come Sept. 5.
The aggravated Middle East problem is
being taken to the Catoctin Mountains in
Maryland, 60 miles away from the White
House. The intentions are good ones. The
talks that will be monitored at that Camp
David site by President Carter between
Anwar Sadat and Menahem Begin are in-
tended for intimacy. to the elimination of
gossip and news leaks.
The intentions are good. President Carter
is on the right track. There has been too
much zigzagging, too many utterances
which created discord and which were never
firm enough to assure that direct negotia-
tions between Israel and Egypt and an im-
partial American position will always be de-
pendable.
Now it will be interesting to learn
whether Dame Gossip can be silenced, if the
news leaks have merely complicated situa-
tions can be avoided, and if solid thinking
and sincere aims for peace can be introduced
and effectively activated.
Between now and Sept. 5 there will be
many speculations. It is impossible to si-
lence newscasters who seek sensationalism.
Even the truth about plans for new border
settlements were distorted in recent days
because the aim of those giving the reports
notoriety was to besmirch Israel and Begin
rather than to arrive at a rational diagnosis
of given conditions.

TERRITORY

SINAI

WEST

BANK/GAZA

JERUSALEM

entire Sinai.
Negotiation on retention of settlements and air bases
for security purposes.
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Rejects any territorial compromise.
If the Israeli proposal for local autonomy is accepted,
Jordan and Egypttake interim control over the region:
Israel would negotiate the sovereignty of the regions
after five years the Palestinian Arabs would determine
after five years.
their own future.
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•
East Jerusalem must be completely given over to Arab
. To remain united under Israeli rule but with an agree-
sovereignty.
ment on the special status of Moslem holy places.

This issue is open for negotiation.

Negotiable.
SETTLEMENTS
•
Civil autonomy in a comprehensive program of self-
PALESTINIAN ARAB . rule by a freely elected administrative council.
SELF-DETERMINATION
,

REFUGEES
-

RETENTION OF
SECURITY POSTS

All must be removed.

Calls for a "solution of the Palestinian question in all
its aspects" whereby the Palestinian Arabs would
determine their future exclusively. Proposes a "state-
like entity" with initial links to Jordan.

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Some refugees could return to the West Bank. Others - Arab refugees must be allowed to return to Israel
should be settled where they now reside. Compensa- proper if they wish.
No compensation for Jewish refugees from Arab
tion for both Arab and Jewish refugees.
lands.
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,
i
•
Israeli defense forces would retain security positions Israel must state its readiness to evacuate completely
"before
Arabs
sit
to
discuss
security
arrangements."
'
1 after withdrawal.
Not one soldier to remain after five years.

pute in the negotiations in which the United
States now is playing an important role. If
there is to be a proper and realistic handling
of the situation, if there is to be an approach
to peace and an assurance that can be av-
oided, these declarative viewpoints must be
Near East Report, published by the studied and must receive due consideration
America Israel Public Affairs Committee in all deliberations.
published a factual record of the conflicting
It is too much to expect that prejudiced
views on the variety of subjects under dis-

Can the speculative and distorting ap-
proaches be avoided? That would be hard to
believe. Therefore, it is vital that the con-
trasting positions of Israel and Egypt should
ndt be ignored.

EGYPT

ISRAEL

Rejects any retention of territory by Israel. Israel must
Secure and recognized borders to be negotiated.
return "every inch."
' Dayan: "If a concrete proposal for a peace treaty
Sadat: "We do not bargain over land."
based on territorial compromise is put forwird, Israel
would be ready to discuss this."
...
•
All of Sinai must be returned.
Prepared to recognize Egyptian sovereignty over the

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forthcoming sessions, under the guidance of
President Carter, and of the President him-
self, can not claim the right to Prophecy.
Since hope springs eternally in the hearts of
people, let it develop into something good for
the peoples of the Middle East and for the
justice-loving in the world at large. May out
of Camp David come forth the Law ofJustice
Will the contending forces come to terms and sincerity in statesmanship that will
at Camp David? Even the participants in the lead to peace.

analysts will ever judge these facts impar-
tially. Those who are bent upon spreading
malice can not be cured. Therefore, the ap-
peal is to the fair-minded and unbiased, and
especially to the reading public, Jews in the
first order, to make note of what Israel says
and offers and how the antagonists react.

New Peace Double Standard Exposed in Factual Memo

Data Compiled by Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

since Israel has been seek- the meantime, score
Now events move swiftly. David.
At last Sadat relents. Yes, ing such talks for more than another public relations
Ambassador-at-Large
Atherton flies to Cairo; he will meet with Begin be- 30 years, Begin's concession coup for Anwar Sadat, who
President Sadat of Egypt Sada -greets him with an cause the U.S. will now be a must come in some other by consenting however re-
luctantly to resume negoti-
has proved even shrewder adamant "no" to further "full partner" (no longer a form.
ations, has regained the
than his admirers in the talks and rumors are floated mere mediator) in the dis-
What that form will be — title of "world's foremost
press and the White House about Egyptian military cussions. The world
give him credit for being. In preparations. Next, Secret- breathes a huge sigh of re- and how actively the U.S. peacemaker" and placed the
January he broke off ary Vance himself is dis- lief— Sadat agrees to talk! will participate in the talks burden on Israel to restore
negotiations with Israel patched carrying a presi- — and turns to Israel for an as a "full partner" — will be the momentum toward
equivalent gesture. But revealed at Camp Dayid. In peace.
• Egypt is lavishly after only a day and a half of dential invitation to Camp
praised for agreeing to re- talks. In July he agreed to
turn to the peace table.
send his foreign minister to
• Israel's eagerness to meet with Israel's Moshe
a story of a fight between
negotiate is accepted as a Dayan in Leeds, England,
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
the New York papers. Met- ging his opponent. "Why is
matter of course.
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
ropolitan journalism is in a he hitting him?" he would him and a rival editor. He
following which the Egyp-
told how his rival had
ask.
"Did
he
do
anything
tian president announced:
bad
state.
Once
it
was
co-
You wouldn't have be-
vered with newspapers as wrong?" And baseball, too, beaten him up and later
• Sadat refuses to cede "a "There will be no com- lieved it was possible but it
boasted of the added circu-
seemed
a
little
silly.
Who
promises
in
land
or
the
waters
cover
the
sea.
single inch" of "sacred Arab
happened last week. People
sovereignty."
There was a paper for every would throw things around lation the story brought.
soil."
have been gabbing for some
always
said
Bennett and Greeldy
taste. Today, there are only like that. Mama
• Begin is called "in-
Meanwhile, pressure time about the decline of three English dailies in you should never throw quickly sensed the im-
transigent" and accused of
Don't believe it.
mounted on Israel to Yiddish.
portance of the tele-
New York — the Times, the things around.
taking his demands from
What did Nelson Rockefel-
make still further con-
Jews, however, took to
graph. There would be no
News and Post.
the Bible.
cessions — and Israel did ler do last Thursday as he
newspapers with special
problem of filling up the
The Yiddish field
so. In mid-July Moshe got up in the morning? He
alacrity.
One
time,
mama
paper after that.
rushed out to get a copy of
• Egypt's major conces- Dayan announced that the Jewish Daily Forward which is now reduced to
sent me to buy a copy of the
The pioneer American
one paper, was well
sion turns out to be a wil- Israel was prepared to
Daily News. Thought she editors were apt to be a bit
and
what
was
Gov.
Hugh
lingness to be dragged into consider an Arab offer of Carey reading as he was supplied. There was the
was interested in , the rough and outspoken. So, in
territorial compromise eating his scrambled eggs in Tageblatt and the Morn-
negotiations.
Russo-Japanese war which fact, were some of the early
• Israel, in return, is and to discuss the the morning? The Yiddish ing Journal for the religi-
was being fought then. But Jewish pioneer editors. A
ous and conservative
asked to risk the very safety sovereignty of the West
she wanted the paper to fellow once came to Abe
Forward.
Jews; the Forward for
of her people by (1) surren- Bank and Gaza after a
wrap the herring. News- Cahan of the Forward ask-
Well, anyway, if they the more radical; and the
dering all of the West Bank five-year transitional
papers had many such ing for a job.
Tag
for
the
middle
of
the
didn't
read
the
Forward
period.
But
Sadat
was
and Gaza, territories she
domestic uses. Jews were
"What can you do," asked
regards as essential to her unmoved. Giving no they had no other daily roaders.
also very news-minded.
Cahan.
There was one difference
security; (2) acquiescing to notice to the latest Israeli paper to read. In the big city
The
invention
of
the
tele-
"I can write poetry," said
"self- concessions, he of New York, only one daily between Yiddish newspap-
Palestinian
graph really introduced the the applicant for a job.
determination" — a threatened instead that paper was being published ers and the others. The Yid-
modern
era
of
journalism.
"Poetry doesn't sell pap-
euphemism for a Palesti- be might not renew the - a Yiddish paper. What a dish never covered sports.
Bennett of the New York ers," said Cahan. "Can you
nian state; (3) evacuating 1975 Sinai disengage- day of glory for the Yiddish The old-time Jew didn't
Herald once devoted a large make a pogrom? Pogroms
East Jerusalem; (4) giving ment agreement, which language! take to sports. He would see
section of one day's issue to sell papers."
Strikes had closed down a picture of Dempsey slug-
Arab refugees the right to expires in October.

As the Camp David sum-
mit approaches, a curious
kind of double standard has
developed in current per-
ceptions of the compromises
each side is expected to
make to achieve a settle-
ment of the Arab-Israel dis-
pute:

return to Israel proper if
they wish.

Only Paper in New York? Why, the Forward, of Course