14 Friday, May 23, 1980
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partment official said later
that they included
Jerusalem, Israel's borders,
land and water rights and
the scope of authority for
the people of the area.
Muskie said that "a lot
of other issues involving
proposed authorities of
the self-governing
authority" have been
"cleared away" in the
negotiations thus far. "It
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affecting
people would be under
the self-governing
authority" and that "bas-
ically agreement is
within reach" on them. -
Muskie spoke in response
to questions as to whether
he had "formulated plans to
break the stalemate" in the
Egyptian - Israeli - U.S.
negotiations which
President Anwar Sadat
broke off last week, when
Sadat would rejoin the talks
and if he would "dissuade"
the European allies from
recognizing the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Muskie did not refer to the
PLO in his replies but dwelt
entirely on the autonomy
negotiations.
"The parties have no
choice but to deal with these
six" basic issues, he said.
"There is no way of backing
off from them or retreating
from them. They are head-
to-head. They are forced by
the nature of what has been
achieved up to now and the
nature of what has been
agreed up to now on how to
deal with these issues.
"If (there is) any inter-
vention or any diversion, if
the effect is to dilute the
concentration that we are
now able to force upon these
issues, then we will be set
back in time and probably
set back in the prospects for
dealing ,with it," Muskie
said. "This is a difficult
point of view to persuade
parties other than those
immediately involved to ac-
cept. But I say what I say
with great conviction."
, He said that when he
took the office of secre-
tary of state, one of the
issues "I wanted fully
explored for my own
benefit before I moved
too far along in my office"
was the Arab-Israeli is-
sue. He said he reached
that conclusion after hav-
ing "thoroughly dis-
cussed" the matter with
the U.S. ambassadors to
Egypt and Israel, with
Special Ambassador Sol
Linowitz, the American
representative at the au-
tonomy talks, and with
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Observers believe that
Egypt's break-off of negoti-
ations on the autonomy
talks appears intended
more as a message of warn-
ing to Washington and a
consolation note to the Arab
world than as only another
propaganda thrust at Israel.
Egyptian fury is directed
at Premier Menahem Begin
of Israel, a target which
Cairo knows many in Wash-
ington and Europe approve
or don't mind. But just what
President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt expects to gain by his
threat to torpedo the Camp
David formulas is not yet
clear. Several theories are
suggested.
His timing of his third
switch in four days last
week, it is said, may be that
he sees opportunities for
him in the Western Euro-
peans' movement away
from President Carter on
economic sanctions against
Iran and absence of solidar-
ity on the Olympic boycott
coupled with the low tide in
his election campaign.
If British Foreign Sec-,
retary Lord Carrington
can dilute sanctions and
challenge Carter to act
against Israel despite the
election, it is argued, why
can't Sadat inform the
President to force Israel
on "Palestinian rights"
or let his foreign policy
centerpiece — Camp
David — go into discard
along with his re-election
chances?
Another theory is that
Sadat's domestic troubles
are causing him to divert
his nation's attention again
towards "fanatics" in Israel
while reassuring the Arab
world that he shares its
views.
It is accepted in Washing-
ton that Sadat's conception
is encompassed in the. re-
cent Cairo Radio domestic
broadcast in Arabic that
"obstinate" Begin stands for
"no Palestinian state, no re-
turn of Jerusalem and no
self-determination."
Begin, Cairo Radio added,
"doesn't care if the U.S.
loses Middle East oil or
keeps it" or "if the West
loses its allies in the region
or keeps them." Then comes
the threat; "Egypt will lose
nothing by discontinuing
the negotiations . . . . What
the Arabs accept today, they
will not accept tomorrow
and will reject the day after
tomorrow. Our Arab
brothers are now perhaps
aware of the real position of
Egypt which accepts peace
and rejects surrender."
Tied to this theory is
the calculated Egyptian
official arrogance
towards Israel and Is-
raelis. When Egypt's
Foreign Minister Boutros
Ghali in Cairo explained
Egypt's breakoff to the
media, he said he had
notified U.S. Ambas-
sador Alfred Atherton.
Asked if he had also
notified Israeli Ambassador
Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Ghali
replied: "He can hear it on
radio."
Although Egyptian Am-
bassador Ashraf Ghorbal
was in Washington when
Israeli Ambassador Ep-
hraim Evron hosted the an-
nual Israel Independence
Day reception, he didn't
show up and instead sent
his Embassy's third-
ranking official.
- Sadat's contention that
Israel showed "bad faith" on
the talks because of the
legal measure introduced
last week in the Knesset on
Jerusalem, is seen as a
"flimsy pretext." Since
1967, Israel has adopted
resolutions on Jerusalem.
Even the State De-
partment, which habitu-
ally favors Arab percep-
tions, couldn't agree with
him. It pointed out on
successive days that the
measure was by an op-
, ponent of the Begin gov-
ernment and has been re-
ferred to a Knesset com-
mittee. That nearly the
entire Knesset approved
referral is indicative of
Israel's feeling but,
analysts observed, that
has not been different at
any time.
A major result of Sadat's
three switches in four days
on the autonomy- talks,
some analysts observed, is
that Americans may now
more understanding
what has been happening _
Israelis in dealing with the
Egyptians and why Israelis
are so determined to
preserve their security
measures, including set-
tlements.
Analysts recalled that
Americans became more
acutely aware of terrorist
tactics inflicted on Israel
when American diplomats
and other official personnel
became hostages of ter-
rorists in Iran.
* * *
Arabs React -
to Knesset
NEW YORK — Islamic
foreign ministers meeting
in Pakistan over the
weekend demanded an
emergency session of the
United Nations to discuss
the future of Jerusalem.
The ministers were -react-
ing to reports that a
member of the Knesset had
introduced a motion calling
Jerusalem the eternal, un-
divided capital of Israel.
Pakistan's foreign minis-
ter called for Israeli with-
drawal from "occupied" ter-
ritories and the return of
Jerusalem to Arab sover-
eignty.
Jewry Warned, Wishner Elected
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Bertram Gold, executive
vice president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, de-
clared last week that the
American Jewish commu-
nity must be prepared to
meet new realities in the fu-
ture, a future that will - be
beset "by conflict, confusion
and contradiction."
Delivering the keynote
address to the 74th annual
meeting of the AJCommit-
tee at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, Gold said, however,
that despite the prospects
for a bleak future "we must
retain a vision of a hopeful
future. For without such a
vision, there can be no
meaning to the Holocaust
that destroyed six million of
us, nor the Jewish state
which arose out of the
ashes."
The new realities facing
American society in the '80s
will have a profound effect
on the Jewish community,
Gold said. Demographic
changes, new social and
economic developments in
America will create new
realities and force changes
in the life of American Jews,
MAYNARD WISHNER
the AJCommittee official
predicted.
Other challenges fac-
ing the Jewish commu-
nity are the needs of the
aged and newly arrived
immigrants in the United
States, Gold said.
Richard Maass, AJCom-
mittee president, concluded
his three-year term as head
of the organization. He was
elected honorary president
of the AJCommittee.
Maynard Wishner of
Chicago, an attorney and
financial expert and the
immediate past chairman of
the AJCommittee's board of
governors, succeeded Maass
as president.
Wishner has served the
organization in a variety of
top leadership posts over
the course of many years,
including chairman of the
National Executive Coun-
cil, chairman of the Jewish
Communal Affairs Com-
mission, a national vice
chairman, and chairman of
the Chicago chapter.
At the annual meeting,
the Public Broadcasting
Service received four
mass media awards from
the AJCommittee.
Receiving the awards
were PBS President Lawr-
ence R. Grossman; Joan C
Cooney, president of th
Children's
Televisior
Workshop; Robert MacNr
co-host of the MacNe..
Lehrer Report; and com-
mentator and critic Alistair
Cooke.
The first Akiba Award of
the AJCommittee was pre-
sented to Dr. Louis Finkels-
tein, chancellor emeritus of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary, "for his modern
day personification of the
spirit of Akiba and his dis-
ciples."