THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Hardliners Continue Camp David Attacks
By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Even though Israel has not
given away one single inch
of the West Bank, even
though no real negotiations
have yet begun over the
West Bank, it is a fact that
much of the ultra-hardline
criticism here of the Camp
David agreements focusses
on the West Bank rather
than on the Sinai which is to
be completely evacuated.
Geula Cohen, the Herut
ebrand who has been in
forefront of attacks on
Premier Menahem Begin,
scarcely mentions the Sinai
in her speeches and articles.
Neither Sharm el-Sheikh
nor the Rafah salient set-
tlements figure in her criti-
cism of the Camp David ac-
cords. Her condemnation of
Begin is for his "betrayal of
Eretz Yisrael."
Nor do any of Begin's pro-
testations that he has not
betrayed Eretz Yisrael, that
his claim to sovereignty
over the West Bank is still
valid, that no settlements
will ever be removed from
there, that, on the contrary,
new ones will , be built —
none of this seems to affect
1W. Cohen and her allies in
the slightest.
Cohen herself, and cer-
tain critics of Begin in the
Labor camp, have, in
fact, been entirely consis-
tent. Last January, when
the premier first pre-
sented his plan for au-
tonomy on the West Bank
and Gaza Strip, Cohen
and the others warned
that the plan "sowed the
seeds of a Palestinian
state."
Now, with the "prece-
dent" of the Sinai with-
drawal to cite in argument,
the ultra hardline opposi-
tion is redoubling its assert-
ing that Begin, determined
to avoid a "repartition" of
the West Bank, has in fact
triggered a process that will
result in the whole of the
area becoming, one day, an
independent Palestinian
state.
The autonomy, they con-
tend, will develop a momen-
tum of its own. The process
is probably irreversible.
Begin himself, asked
about this in a Rosh
Hashana interview with
Maariv, declared "There
will never be a Palestinian
state under any conditions.
As a Jew," he said, "I can
say I shall always be proud
that a Jewish government
proposed autonomy for the
nhabitants of Judea,
Samaria and G4za. A Pales-
tinian state however shall
not arise. Under no condi-
tion shall it arise. We are
responsible for that. The Is-
rael army ' in Judea,
Samaria and Gaza will be
responsible for that . . . ."
But what would hap-
pen, the interviewer per-
sisted, if the autonomous
council one day pro-
claimed an independent
state? Begin cut him
short. ".... If it pro-
claims a state it will be in
breach of the law and of
. the agreements — and we
will not stand for it.
tive of the Camp David ac-
cords. In other words, a
majority of those who be-
lieved the accords will re-
sult in a Palestinian state
nevertheless declared that
they backed the accords.
What, then, of the "national
consensus" opposing a sepa-
rate Palestinian state at all
costs?
GEULA COHEN
MENAHEM BEGIN
"Therefore this fear
should be removed from the
hearts of Israeli citizens
. . . . We have not proposed
an autonomy from which
will grow an independent
state, which would be a
mortal danger for the very
existence of the Jewish
state and would cause con-
stant bloodshed and even-
tual all-out war in difficult
conditions for Israel . . . .
"We proposed autonomy,
not a state. The difference is
vast . . . . A state has a par-
liament, a government, an
army, diplomatic relations
with other states, and other
characteristics. The inhabi-
tants of Judea, Samaria and
Gaza cannot have these
things — because if they
had them, they would de-
termine not only their own
fate, but also our fate —
they would determine for us
murder, bloodshed and vio-
lence. We will never agree
to this. Never."
The premier was voicing
these assurances to a public
that has been taught for a
decade and more that a
separate Palestinian state
would be a disaster for Is-
rael to be avoided at any
cost. And that teaching is
still very much a part of the
"national consensus." In-
deed, an opinion poll com-
missioned by Yediot Ac-
hronot and published ear-
lier this month shoWed that
90 percent of Israelis were
totally opposed to the crea-
tion of a Palestinian state
on the West Bank and Gaza.
In part, of course, the an-
swer must be that polls are
notoriously unscientific and
therefore not worthy of such
portentous political
analysis. So much depends
on how the questions are
phrased. If the pollsters had
asked "Do you want peace if
the price is a Palestinian
state?" the number of posit-
ive replies might have been
less than 50 percent. But
having noted the precarious
nature of poll-analysis, one
can scarcely avoid noting,
nevertheless, that the "na-
tional consensus" seems to
be wearing thin.
Indeed a dispassionate
look at the past 11 months
shows that "consensus" has
not stood up well to the rav-
ages of reality, to the buffet-
ing of Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat's peace initia-
tive. Whole chunks of it
have fallen by the wayside.
First, there was Sharm
el-Sheikh. For 10 years the
"national consensus" dic-
tated that Israel would not
leave the strategic spot ever
again. But in December,
Premier Begin ceded it to
Egypt — and hardly a
whimper was raised in pro-
–
test.
But at the same time —
and this is a potentially
vital development follow-
ing Camp David — the
skepticism regarding Be-
gin's promise that such a
state will "never" arise is
not confined to his rela-
tively few hawkish oppo-
nents. Fully 50 percent of
the public, that same poll
showed, believe that a
The Rafah salient, with
Palestinian state will in its solidly established
`Vial of Life'
fact evolve on the West Jewish settlements, was
Program Begun
Bank and Gaza as a result another pillar of the "na-
The Southfield area is of the Camp David ac- tional consensus." In-
deed, Begin himself re-
being introduced this cords.
To perceive the full sig- ferred to it as such only
month to a program with
potential life-saving nificance of these figures, a weeks before Camp
capabilities. The program third result of the same poll David. But that pillar,
centers around a container must be introduced: some 80 too, has fallen almost
called the Vial of Life, percent of those asked pro- soundlessly — for the
which holds a patient's med- fessed themselves suppor- tumult in the Knesset re-
cently was, as we have
ical history.
seen, more over fears for
Residents of this area and NY Enrollment
the West Bank than over
others in Michigan and
NEW YORK (JTA) — Al-
Ohio — especially elderly though two new elementary the fate of Rafah and its
settlements.
people who are frequently
home alone — are being
encouraged to obtain the
vials.
Cunningham
Drug
Stores, Inc. is launching the
program in cooperation
with emergency medical
personnel. The vials are
available free of charge at
all Cunningham drug
stores.
The vials are placed in
the refrigerator — on the
upper left shelf — and a
label is put on the re-
frigerator door. An-other
label is provided for the
outside door to the house.
These notify emergency
medical crews that a
medical history is avail-
able when they arrive.
Refrigerators were cho-
_sen by medical personnel
because refrigerators are
located in most houses and
apartments, and because
kitchens are frequently the -
site of a medical emergency.
However, a second Vial of
Life is recommended for the
glove compartment of a car.
Hebrew day schools were
opened in Brooklyn for the
new school year, there has
been no appreciable in-
crease in enrollment in such
schools in the Greater New
York area, which has re-
mained roughly at 1976-77
level of 54,000 students,
Torah Umesorah has re-
ported.
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan, who some years ago
said he would prefer Sharm
el-Sheikh without peace
than peace without Sharm
el-Sheikh, today concedes
that the new situation has
caused him to change his
mind and to recommend
giving up the area for the
chance of peace. The ultra-
hardliners, however, have
not shifted with the circum-
stances. The positions they
adopted in advance of peace
still pertain today, now that
peace is at hand.
Friday, October 27, 1978 17
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