6 Friday, January 4, 1980 LOWEST PRICES Cassette Dictating Transcribing Machines THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS George Ball's Arab Appeasement, Anti-Israel Views 'Stated in January Foreign Policy Magazine Article By VICTOR BIENSTOCK 342-7801 George W. ball no longer holds an official position in If You Want to BUY 'EM We Want to SELL 'EM! See Us First! GLASSMAN OLDSMOBILE, INC. 28000 TELEGRAPH at Tel-12 Mall 354-3300 Just South of 12 Mile Rd. FULL TIME PROTECTION FROM MARV CHECK • • • • Burglary Vandalism Fire Personal Attack MARV ROSEN At A Price You Can Afford N O IFONE Automatically Notifies within seconds Police Dept. & fire Dept. Central Office Hidden Wire Installatio. You Won't Know We've Been There emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ALARM INC. 838-7008 the U.S. government but he is a ranking member of the small, permanent estab- lishment which dominates American foreign policy re- gardless of which party is in power. Under secretary of state in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and a former ambassador to the United Nations, Ball has closely followed Middle East developments and has long been a trenchant critic of Israeli policy. He has been particularly severe in his appraisals of Israel's policies toward the Arabs and has long advocated the Rogers Plan, with minor modifications, as the solu- tion of territorial issues. His viewpoint must be ac- cepted as, in large part, an expression of the position of our foreign policy estab- lishement. Writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, the influential quarterly pub- lished by the Council on Foreign Relations, Ball warns that American- Israeli relations are "ap- proaching a crisis state." He warns bluntly that "unless American-Israeli relations are radically rede- fined — either in a closer or looser direction — the search for an Arab-Israeli peace will be completely thwarted and the interests of both nations increasingly jeopardized." He describes Israel's position vis-a-vis the United States as "depen- dence without responsi- bility," American and Is- raeli interests not always idential and the im- mediate problem: how can "our relationship with Israel be brought into lihe with the national interest?" Ball's basic complaint is that the U.S. has never, Large selection of rings watches and other fine jewelry 14 and 18 K GOLD Diamonds and Fine Jewelry These services done on premises • Jewelry Repair • Watch Repair • Restringing lig WEINTRAUti No Job Too Small "Where the customer comes first" Quality jewelers for 3 generations Barr Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. 9-3 All bankards honored 23077 Greenfield Advance Bldg. suite 389 Sfld. • 557-5544 since the Eisenhower- Dulles days, stood up to Is- rael but has yielded to the Israeli hard line on peace. He accuses Israel of follow- ing policies harmful to American interests while, at the same time, demand- ing and receiving American aid. The activities of the Is- raeli lobby in Washington, he says, "exert a strong and continuing influence" on American-Israeli relations, contributing "in a major way to the constrictions im- posed on American freedom of diplomatic action toward Israel." The Israeli influ- ence in Washington is so strong, he complains, that "practically no actions can be taken, or even discussed, within the executive branch without it being quickly known to the Israeli gov- ernment." Ball's immediate concern is that the Israelis are refus- ing to settle the Palestine Arab question, that failure to resolve this issue is pre- venting establishment of peace in the Middle Est and that the present state of af- fairs — the absence of peace — is highly detrimental to American interests. He charges that the ul- timate aim of the Begin administration is to whit- tle down the Camp David agreements on the West Bank and ultimately to annex the territory– His comments on the Israeli emphasis now on retain- ing West Bank control are caustic and he cites a little-known fact that in July 1968 when he was U.S. Permanent Repre- sentative to the United Nations, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol authorized him "to tell King Hussein that, in return for peace, Israel would be prepared to return the West Bank with minor modifications to his authority. "Hussein, however," Ball narrates, "was not at that time a free agent" because of the Khartoum Declara- tion barring any talks with Israel. The current position of the Israeli government, Ball asserts, "offers no hope whatever of progress toward resolution of the problems of the West Bank and Gaza, the core of the Palestine issue which, in turn, is the key to lasting peace." He condemns the Israelis for encroachment on the West Bank with settle- ments and land purchases and for conduct in south- ern Lebanon ' a policy of savage and wide-ranging air attacks that inflict casualties out of all propor- tion to the occasion." Arabs, he says, can hardly be between Israel and the Arabs but the avoidance of divisive issues that set Arab states against each other and seeking to play one superpower against the other, he says. American support of the Israeli-Egyptian peace ef- forts, he contends, has con- tributed to "the polarization of the Arab world." He asserts that "there is GEORGE BALL no possibility whatever of blamed "for believing that Israel playing any useful Israel is engaged in a delib- part in the direct military or erate policy of expansion strategic sense" because the Arabs will not cooperate . and consolidation." The fornier ranking with the Israelis. Defense State Department official Secretary asserts that although Is- Brown's mission to the Mid- rael's policies are "pro- dle East countries to ascer- foundly antithetic to tain defense needs, he says. American interests and "was told in the most principles," Israel never- categorical terms that any theless continues to ex- project that involved Israeli pect and to demand mili- territory or forces would be tary and economic aid highly disruptive." from the U.S. and has be- Assuming that Ball is come "a ward — a kind of correctly reporting the Arab welfare dependent — of position — and there is no reason to assume otherwise America." Israel's dependence on in this case — that would the United States, he mean that in the event of an claims, "has now reached emergency, American ships would not be able to use the point of totality." America's overriding Haifa's facilities or U.S. interest in the Middle East, fighters and bombers would Ball says, is to promote not be able to use Israeli peace, particularly between bases without the U.S. in- Israel and the Arab states, curring Arab displeasure. Israeli policy must be because "America needs to establish friendly relations brought into conformity with the Arab states that with America's, Ball insists. are becoming increasingly "with Israel accepting the significant elements in the essential changes in the economic life of the world." American position." The al- That is not possible, he says, ternative is that Israeli- as long as Israel is at odds American relations "must become much looser, with with the Arabs. Furthermore, peace is the U.S. resuming its free- necessary because "we need dom of action on all forins of to keep the Middle East out aid to Israel, so long as Is- of the Communist orbit." rael sticks to its present This requires not only peace course." 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