THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 21, 1983 5

Israel Must Counteract U.S. Policy With Strength

By PETER GOLDMAN

Director, Americans
For a Safe Israel

NEW YORK — The time
has come for the Jewish
L .community and supporters
of Israel to disabuse them-
selves of the concept that
there is a "special relation-
ship" between the United
States and Israel, and that
the frequent American - Is-
raeli disputes are merely
minor squabbles between
friends.
One of the principal aims
of American Middle East-
ern policy is to force Israel to
return to the 1949 armistice
lines. This is the underlying
theme of the Reagan plan
and the talking points" sent
to Israel by the U.S. gov-

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ernment. Israel is to be di-
vested of Judea and
Samaria; Jerusalem is to
become "negotiable."
This is not a new direction
of U.S. policy. Ever since the
Rogers Plan of December
1969, successive American
administrations have re-
jected Israel's title to the
territories and sought to
pressure Israel back to the
indefensible pre-1967 lines.
must
Americans
understand that Israel is
the major deterrent to
Soviet expansion and
control in the Middle
East, and that it would
cost the U.S. taxpayer
some $150 billion a year
to project and maintain
in the Middle East a force
equivalent to the pro-
Western Israeli army.
The $1 billion the U.S. in-
vests in Israel each year is
returned many times. Un-
fortunately the Reagan
Administration's policies
which seek to reduce and
weaken our major strategic
asset are very damaging to
the interests and well-being
of the U.S.
Americans must also
understand that no conces-
sion short of the ultimate
concession — Israel's disap-
pearance — will please the
Arabs and thereby the
appeasement-prone West-
ern nations.
Surrounded by well-
armed hostile nations, only
strength (military, politi-
cal, economic, territorial)
will assure Israel's survival
and possibly lead to a de
facto peace, which is the
most one can hope for in the-
Middle East.
Israel is currently the
major power in the area,
but her position is never-
theless precarious. Al-
ready strategically and
economically weakened
by the loss of Sinai, the
loss of Judea and
Samaria would place Is-
rael in an untenable mili-
tary and psychological
situation.
A united Arab world
armed with the latest Soviet
and American weapons and
backed politically by most of

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the world's nations is an-
other potential threat.
Israel must avoid such
situations: incorporating
Judea and Samaria — now
that Egypt and the U.S.
have broken the Camp
David Accords — while
being prepared to prevent
an Arab arms buildup are
minimum security re-
quirements.
The Arabs, who have lost
every war with Israel,
nevertheless act like victors
when the wars are finished.
They refuse peace; they
make demands; they make
the West bend to their will.
Using oil, money, terror,
explicit demands and condi-
tions from which they never
budge, they emerge victori-
ous with the Western pow-
ers firmly on their side.
The military victor, Is-
rael, makes the conces-

sions and becomes the
supplicant for U.S.
largesse. In the minds of
the American public Is-
rael becomes another one
of those cumbersome and
mendicant client states.
If Israel wishes to be
taken seriously as a geo-
political power, command
respect, and change the
pro-Arab leaning of the
Western nations, she must
be prepared to exert power.
She must also be prepared
to make the Western na-
tions as afraid of the Jewish
state as they are of the
Arabs by making the West
realize that Israel can play a
major role in the ultimate
disposition of Middle East-
ern oil.
A nation which is not pre-
pared to assert its claim to
the part of its homeland
where its history evolved,

Journal Article Scores
Timerm,an's 'Longest War'

Amos Perlmutter, editor
of the Journal for Strategic
Studies, commenting on
Jacobo Timerman's "The
Longest War," charged that
this book "serves neither
the cause of peace nor Mr.
Timerman's own cause of
trying to become an Israeli."
In his criticisms of
Timerman's attitude
toward his adopted country
and the conflict in Lebanon,
Perlmutter states, in his ar-
ticle in the Wall Street
Journal:
"His (Timerman's) out-
rage is directed mainly at
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin and Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon, whom he ac-
cuses of planning an inva
sion. Mr. Timerman asserts
that Messrs. Begin and
Sharon, while conducting
the war, were undermining
Israeli democracy — the
only practicing democracy
in the Middle East. He sees
his beloved democracy
heading toward fascism and
Latin American-style mili-
tary dictatorship, under the
manipulative guise of Mr.
Begin's version of par-
liamentary democracy.
"Mr. Timerman may
indeed be familiar with
Latin American
militarism, but he has
never lived under a

Deal Is Nixed

LONDON (ZINS) — A
London correspondent for
the Israeli daily Haaretz re-
ported that Israel had
agreed to supply computers
to the Soviet Union through
a Finnish mediary but then
backed down under Ameri-
can pressure.
Asked not to violate the
U.S. embargo on such
equipment for the Soviets,
Israel reportedly now plans
to sell a limited amount of
electronics, technical
equipment and computers
to the Soviet Union.

It is much safer to recon-
cile an enemy than to con-
quer him; victory may dep-
rive him of his poison, but
reconciliation of his will.
—Feltham

democracy, and is un-
familiar with coalition
politics, which he finds
corrupt and threatening.
"He correctly notes that
`Israel is not like any other
nation.' This also applies to
his status as citizen and
Zionist. A passport and a
Jewish heritage will get you
Israeli citizenship, but not
the authoritative or moral
force that he would claim."

and which does not im-
mediately incorporate the
40 mile depth needed for its
self-defense, for fear of of-
fending the U.S., will have a
hard time surviving in the
hostile Middle East or in
justifying its cause.
If Israel were to accomo-
date all American wishes,
she would be reduced to un-
viable dimensions and
eventually be destroyed. Is-
rael must, therefore, free it-
self of its dependence of the
U.S., since American
foreign policy is (mis-.
takenly) not oriented
towards the well-being of
the Jewish state.
If Israel acted like the
power she is, the United
States and Europe would be
approaching Israel with of-
fers. A recognition of Is-
rael's value is needed in
Washington. A recognition
of Israel's strength and its
just cause is needed in
Jerusalem.

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