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Senator's Trip to Holy Land
Strengthens Support for Israel

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Before he saw the Holy
Land, Maine's junior U.S.
Senator, Republican
William S. Cohen, was av-
idly pro-Israel in heart and
mind. Now that he's been
there, his conviction that
the United States must
stand firmly with Israel in
the face of the developing
diplomatic and propaganda
storms against her is as
rock-ribbed as his native
state is generally described.
"I was always a strong
supporter of Israel," Cohen
said after his return from an
eight-day visit to Israel.

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"My support is even
stronger now. One cannot
appreciate the conditions
under which Israel and the
Israelis exist, survive, and
excel with pride and in
peace."
"Heavy overtones of ten-
sion are evident wherever
you go," .11e said in an inter,
view in his Capitol office.
"Israel lives under the
hair-trigger of extinction."
Then, noting that Israel is
"vulnerable to attacks"
within three to five minutes
flying time, Cohen em-
phasized Israel's defense
requirements, militarily
and territorially. The
Golan Heights," he stressed
at one point, "are of
strategic importance to Is-
rael's survival."
Speaking of the rela-
tionship of Palestinian
Arabs and Israelis,
Cohen observed "not all
the Arabs by any stretch
of the imagination are
supporters of (Palestine
Liberation Organization
chief) Yasir Arafat. There
are some Palestinians
who want to live peace-
fully with Israelis. Within
Israel, there are
philosophical differences
about the best ap-
proaches for a settlement
but there is a genuine
interest in accommoda
tion."
With a statesman's vision
of the diplomatic and prop-
aganda offensive organized
against Israel to legitimize
the PLO, Cohen said: "It is
fundamentally wrong for
the United States or anyone
else to insist or suggest Is-
rael negotiate with the PLO
without conditions.
Some ask Israel to accept
political promises in ex-
change for whatever mar-
ginal safety her land pro-
vides. I believe Israel wants
a resolution of the issue but
it is not sensible to have Is-

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rael negotiate with those
calling for her extinction."
Cohen said he "detested"
the "definite shift by this
Administration to a more
pro-Palestinian position."
He mentioned specifically
President Carter's remark
equating the Palestinian
Arab campaign to the civil
rights movement in the U.S.
and the effects of that on
Black Americans.
"We should speak out
against such comparison
which is lacking in merit
and substance. To equate
the civil -rights movement
and Black Americans
with the Palestinian
Arabs led by the PLO is
certainly a discredit to
Martin Luther King Jr.
whose efforts for social
change was through
non-violent action."
Speaking of Israel and
other democracies, Cohen
asked rhetorically: "Do we
adjust our ethics to what is
expedient at the time? Our
constituents say Ameripa
must look at our interests
first. That's true. But these
have to be defined. Having a
strong Israel as an ally is in
our national interest. Israel
is a strategic necessity to
the U.S.
"Too many people see Is-
rael as a burden rather than
a strong ally in a volatile
region which has obvious
economic importance to us.
The notion that Israel is a
burden is perpetrated by
daily news accounts of so-
called Israeli intransigence,
inflexibility, pursuit of
policies inconsistent with
peace — or intransigence —
that will lead to disruption
of oil supplies. The cumula-
tive effect is that Israel is
becoming a burden to the
U.S."
He stressed that America
must redefine for what it
stands. "What are our
interests? Shifting tempor-
ary alliances or ones of
long-standing? Do we view
democracies throughout the
world as our friends or only
our immediate economic
interests?
If we sacrifice our
ideological precepts on
the altar of short-term
economic interests we
would inflict a wound on
our national soul and
statehood from which we
would not recover."
Cohen, the son of a Jewish
father, a baker in Bangor,
Maine, and an Irish Protes-
tant mother, is a member of
the Unitarian-Universalist
Church. He is only 39 years
old, but has a wealth of
political experience as
Mayor in Bangor where he
was born and three terms as
a member of Congress.

Carter Petitioned

WASHINGTON — Peti-
tions containing the signa-
tures of more than 20,000
individuals demanding
American recognition of
Jerusalem as Israel's capi-
tal have been presented to
the White House by ARZA
— Association of Reform
Zionists of America.

Per Capita GNP

ZURICH (ZINS) — The
annual Union Bank of Swit-
zerland report on the per
capita gross national prod-
uct of 53 nations shows that
the U.S. has now slipped to
eighth place and Israel is in
27th place.
The countries and per
capita figures were: Swit-
zerland, $13,583; Kuwait,
$13,000; Denmark,
$10,948; Sweden, $10,440;
West Germany, $10,415;
Belgium,. $9,939; Norway,
$9,849; and the U.S.,
$9,646.
Saudi Arabia was 10th at
$9,330; Canada was 14th at
$8,648; East Germany was
21st at $4,940; Israel was
27th at $3,471; and the
Soviet Union was 32nd at
$3,010.

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