THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6 Friday, January 18, 1980
Israel Explains Its Objections to Palestinian State
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By UZI BENZIMAN
JERUSALEM (JTA —
Faced with increasing in-
ternational support for the
Palestinians' demand for
"self-determination" the Is-
raeli government has re-
cently published an
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explanatory document set-
ting out its objections to the
idea of an independent
Palestinian state.
The publication, issued
by the Israel Information
Center, states, among other
things, that the Camp
David accords provide for
ensuring the "legitimate
rights" of the Palestinians
as recognized by the sig-
natories of the accords — Is-
rael and Egypt — and the
accords, therefore, limited
the conventional connota-
tion of the term "legitimate
rights." They did not accept
the Palestinian interpreta-
tion of the term, that is a
separate, independent
state.
The far reaching signifi-
cance of this position is that
Israel considers itself one of
the primary parties entitled
to participate in deciding
what comprises the "legiti-
mate rights" of the Palesti-
nians, regardless of the in-
ternational community's
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views on the subject. What
the Israel government be-
lieves to be non-legitimate
is the idea of "self-
determination" in the sense
of a separate state. This is
not legitimate because it
would endanger Israel's
own security.
Israel's basic approach
which underlies the au-
tonomy proposals, is that
in a series of discussions
some modicum of under-
standing could be
worked out which would
give the Palestinian
people a framework for a
moderate alternative
leadership to the Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion which objects to any
solution other than full
"self-determination."
The pamphlet anchors Is-
rael's objections to a Pales-
tinian state in the following
arguments:
• A Palestinian state
would be a PLO state,
namely a state which would
be administered by a ter-
rorist organization that re-
jects the idea of coming to
terms with the existence of
the state of Israel, or limit-
ing Palestine to the confines
of Judea, Samaria and
Gaza.
The PLO, moreover,
would continue to serve as a
convenient political tool of
the rejectionist Arab states
and the Soviet Union in
their perennial quest to de-
stabilize the region, the
pamphlet contends.
• A Palestinian state
would place Israel's major
centers of population and
the country's industrial in-
frastructure under the con-
stant threat of the gun. The
pamphlet reminds the
reader of some some basic
statistics: most of Israel's
population and much of its
industrial infrastructure is
situated in the coastal plain
which lies between the
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Mediterranean Sea and the
mountains of the West
Bank.
• A Palestinian state
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as
would serve
launching-pad for attack
upon Israel by radical and
uncompromising Arab
states, and as a base for as-
saults by the various ter-
rorists that might well con-
tinue operating indepen-
dently of a centralized, re-
sponsible Palestinian gov-
ernment.
The pamphlet claims,
moreover, that the range
and the destructive capacity
of the artillery in Arab
arsenals has more than
doubled since 1967. The ter-
rorist organizations, too,
have acquired substantial
quantities of artillery and
rockets from the Soviet
Union and other sources.
Consequently, over 90
percent of Israel's civilian
population and industrial
infrastructure would be
within comfortable range,
and therefore vulnerable, if
a Palestinian state were es-
tablished on the West Bank
and Gaza.
• A Palestinian state
would lack political and
economic stability and thus
wculd catalyze general
regional destabilization.
The pamphlet points out
that the areas of Judea,
Samaria and Gaza would
have no natural resources,
extremely limited farm-
lands and underdeveloped
industrial infrastructure.
Industry today accounts for
only some nine percent of
the local gross national
product. There is an ex-
tremely high population
density and a basically un-
skilled work force.
• A Palestinian state
would inevitably become a
"Soviet satellite on Israel's
doorstep." The pamphlet
argues that Moscow would
have predominant influ-
ence in a Palestinian state
as the USSR and the PLO
share the common aim of
sabotaging both Western
and Israeli interests in the
Middle East.
Therefore, a PLO state on
Israel's frontier would pro-
vide the Soviet Union with
yet another foothold in the
Middle East and constitute
yet another blow to the
Western sphere of influence
in the region.
Finally, the pamphlet de-
nies the contention that Is-
rael's security fears would
be eliminated if the pro-
posed Palestinian state
were to be demilitarized.
The document claims that
with the inherent lack of
Control which would exist in
a state composed of political
factions dedicated to armed
struggle, demilitarization is
not a viable expectation.
The threat to Israel, it is
stressed, is not necessarily
exclusively expressed in a
scenario of total war but it is
not less real in terms of on-
going harassment by ir-
regular forces aimed at the
country's most sensitive
areas.
In the given current pol it-
ical reality, the pamphlet
concludes, with the PLO
widely accepted as the self-
appointed representative of
the Palestinian people, Is-
rael cannot accept the dubi-
ous security afforded by the
promise of West Bank de-
militarization.
Composer Stoltz Remembered
in New Austrian Publication
The Austrian Federal
Press Service has printed a
booklet, "Robert Stolz: The
Man and His Times," in
honor of the 100th anniver-
sary of the composer's birth.
The booklet includes
anecdotes, a list of awards
the composer had won and
titles bestowed on him and a
synopsis of his composi-
tions. An historical
chronology accompanies the
list of events that shaped
Stolz's life.
The late Robert Stolz was
a conductor and composer,
who also wrote songs and
Jewish Library
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Jewish Heritage Library,
funded by a special New
York state law, has been
dedicated in temporary
facilities at the Kew Gar-
dens Jewish Center in
Flushing.
The Jewish Heritage Li-
brary is part of a $400,000
"Jewish and Ethnic Studies
Project," administered by
Queens College.
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ROBERT STOLZ
ROBERT
music for films. During
World War II, Stolz left
Germany because of his op-
position to the Nazi regime.
Following his depar-
ture, Joseph Goebbels,
the Nazi minister of
propaganda, ordered
Stolz's name to be re-
moved from the credits of
films featuring his music.
The films continue to be
shown in their revised con-
dition, lacking the credit to
Stolz.
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