THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Carter-Israel Relations End on Sour Note
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
In the closing weeks of its
lob
four mainly dispute-ridden
years of relations with Is-
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rael and its friends, Carter
Administration policy-
" makers reverted publicly
from a form of "even-
handedness" towards
Israel-Arab affairs during
the presidential election
campaign to renewed back-
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"-sg of the Rogers Plan pro-
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,als of 1969.
n addition to adherence
to the plan that calls for Is-
rael to return to its 1967
borders and abandon
Jerusalem, Carter Ad-
.., ministration aides went
further. To accomplish this
1.--• purpose, they now again
goad Israel's American
friends to lessen their sup-
port for the Middle East's
only democracy and cast as-
persions on its freely-
elected government.
This apparent swing back
to old perceptions indicates
what a second Carter term
might have meant for Is-
rael. Evidence is in the
o.
post-election U.S. attitude
L in the United Nations; the
comments of State Depart-
ment spokesmen; the per-
sonal remarks of the U.S.
Ambassador to the UN,
Donald McHenry; the views
of former Ambassador to
Egypt, Hermann Eilts; and
the outline of U.S.
psychological operations
towards Israel offered by
Dartmouth Prof. Ian Lus-
tick, who worked in the
State Department on Mid-
dle East issues in 1979-1980
and accurately reflect U.S.
policy as it has been carried
out most of the Carter term.
In a post-election ad-
dress at the dinner given
last month by friends of
Israel to AFL-CIO
President Lane Kirkland,
President Carter char-
acteristically lauded Is-
rael's devotion to politi-
cal democracy and hailed
the Camp David agree-
ments.
But he omitted such ele-
ments as the unity of
Jerusalem, opposition to a
Palestinian state and deal-
ing with the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization, and
Jewish life and Israeli secu-
rity related to the West
Bank,, Gaza Strip and the
Golan Heights. This pre-
sentation essentially was in
keeping with the Lustick
formula of limited support
for Israel — a formula the
President outlined in Clin-
ton, Mass. in 1977.
The Administration's
vacillating treatment of Is-
rael in its fourth year is
illustrated by pre-election
and post-election develop-
ments. On March 1, the U.S.
voted in the UN Security
Council for Israel to aban-
don Jerusalem but in the
subsequent Congressional
storm, much like after the
Soviet-U.S., agreement Oct.
1, 1977, Carter repudiated
the U.S. vote but the State
Department never changed
it formally at the UN. •
After that, the Adminis-
tration did not cast any
votes against Israel in the
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Security Council until
mid-December — after the
Presidential elections —
when the U.S. voted along
with the other 14 members
of the Security Council on a
resolution calling upon Is-
rael to allow two West Bank
Arab mayors to return to
their homes after they had
been deported by Israel fol-
lowing the terrorist ambush
attack last May in Hebron
in /which six yeshiva stu-
dents were killed.
Immediately after the
vote took place, McHenry
deltvered a statement
that might well go down
as the quotation of the
year: "Cynics may claim
that we would have voted
differently before Nov.
4, but I can't be
hostage to cynics." The
resolution on the mayors
was one of six anti-Israel
resolutions the Security
Council passed the same
day. Through it all, the
U.S. delegation allowed
Israel to be mercilessly
browbeaten.
There was also an ele-
ment of vacillation on the
part of the U.S. when Secre-
tary of State Edmund Mus-
kie addressed the Security
Council on Aug. 20 when
that body voted to censure
Israel for proclaiming
united Jerusalem as its cap-
ital and urged all states that
had embassies in the holy
city to withdraw them.
Muskie told the Council
that the resolution "is illus-
trative of a preoccupation
whigh has produced this
series of unbalanced and
unrealistic resolutions on
Middle East issues. It fails
to serve the goal of all faiths
that look to Jerusalem as
holy." He urged that "de-
bates and resolutions that
are not germane to the
peace process — and even
harmful to it — should stop.
Elsewhere in southwest
Asia, and in southeast Asia,
warfare is a present reality.
- The aggressor nations make
no effort to find peace. Yet
this Council is continuously
drawn to the Middle East,
where authentic work for
peace is under way."
The focus of blame for
Middle East problems con-
stantly is put on Israel. In
an interview published Dec.
12 iri the Kansas City
Jewish Chronicle, McHenry
said Israel's policies proyide
"ammunition" to Israel's
enemies. "We don't believe
Israel's actions on settle-
ments, on Jerusalem, in
southern Lebanon, in the
repressive actions in the
West Bank are in the inter-
ests of Israel, the interest of
peace." He rejected Israel's
role in U.S. strategic inter-
est. "I don't use the lan-
guage 'strategic ally,' " he
said.
Named to Post
WASHINGTON ( JTA ) —
Donald McHenry, the
former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, has
been appointed a research
professor in the School of
Foreign Service at
Georgetown University.
The winter issue of
Foreign Policy magazine,
published by the Car-
negie Endowment for In-
ternational Peace, con-
tained two attacks on Is-
rael. Under the title,
"Saving Camp David,"
Eilts hinted Israel de-
ceived the U.S. at Camp
David. On the Jerusalem
issue and settlements,
Eilts said "the Americans
had misunderstood or
had been misled."
Agreeing most of the way
with McHenry about the
PLO, Eilts said "only
through open U.S. contacts
with the PLO leadership
will it be possible to gauge
whether the PLO would be
willing and able to partici-
pate responsibly in broader
peace negotiations." Eilts
added that "in return, the
PLO must renounce ter-
rorism." He did not mention
adherence to Security
Council Resolutions 242 or
338.
Lustick plainly called for
the U.S. to treat Israel with
disdain. "A policy of steady,
public, and convincing dis-
association from Israel's
policies in and toward the
West Bank and Gaza would
help create" an "interna-
tional political context sup-
portive of those elements in
Israel that already are or
will become aware of the
necessity to reach a political
accommodation with the
Palestinians!' He did not
identify those elements.
"A policy of disassociation
rather than mediation or
pressure," he said, "would
help the growing numbers
of those both in Israel and in
the U.S. Jewish community,
who are striving to frame
Israel's choices in a way
that focuses attention on
the long-term costs of fulfil-
ling maximalist ideological
commitment."
Pentagon figures is-
sued New Year's Day dis-
closed that in fiscal 1980
that ended Sept. 30, U.S.
arms sales to Saudi
Arabia totaled $4.5 bil-
lion compared with $1.9
billion in 1977. Three
years ago, Egypt ob-
tained only $1.7 million in
U.S. military equipment.
In 1980, the total reached
$2.4 billion — 15 times as
much.
While Israel received a
Congressional appropria-
tion of $1 billion for fiscal
1980 for U.S. weapons, it ac-
tually purchased only $298
million because, the Penta-
gon told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, it needed to
catch up on payments of
previous acquisitions. Jor-
dan acquired $450 million
in equipment in 1980.
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