14 Friday, April 15, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Ex-Carter Aide Backs U.S. Jews' Right to - Differ With Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Stuart Eizenstat, a former
aide to President Jimmy
Carter, has urged Israelis to
recognize that American
Jewry has the right and
duty" to speak out when it
disagrees with Israeli
policies.
He maintained that this
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right derived from its ac-
ceptance of the Zionist credo
of the centrality of Israel in
Jewish life.
Eizenstat, who was the
senior Jewish member of
the White House staff dur-
ing the Carter Administra-
tion, stressed this view in an
article in the Labor Party
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Among the issues which
affect American Jewry,
Eizenstat listed the "Who is
a Jew" controversy, the
government-imposed ban
on Sabbath flights by the Is-
raeli airline, El Al, and
Premier Menahem Begin's
"close relationship" with
Jerry Falwell, leader of the
Moral Majority.
"We must demand with
all our insistance that there
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It was an expansion of the
address he delivered at the
recent meeting of the board
of governors of Ben-Gurion
University in Beersheva.
In the article, the
former Presidential
assistant enumerated
some of the present Is-
raeli policies and rela-
tionships which disturb
American Jews.
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The U.S. State Depart-
ment was not always criti-
cal of the settlements estab-
lished by Israel in Judea
and Samaria. In an article
in the daily Jerusalem Post,
Jesse V. Lurie, former
editor of the Hadassah
Magazine, recalled:
"I have always considered
the debate over legality
irrelevant to the main issue,
which is whether or not the
settlements are obstacles to
peace. Some years ago I
made this point to a State
Department official in an
off-the-record conversation,
and then I added:
" 'Incidentally, how are
you going to convince the
children of the Gush Etzion
settlers who have returned
to their paternal land that
their settlements are il-
legal?'
"His reply astounded
me. 'The Gush Etzion set-
tlements are not illegal in
our view.'
"As far as I know, the
State Department has
never stated this publicly. It
has never had occasion-to.
The dialogue with Israel
over settlements has degen-
erated into a slogan, 'a
freeze on settlements,'
while serious discussions
proceed on core issues: Is-
rael's relations with its
neighbors and the extent of
U.S. military and economic _
aid."
be religious pluralism in Is-
rael." The proposed Or-
thodox amendment of the
Law of Return would cause
a "deep division" in the
Diaspora Jewry, he warned.
Eizenstat contended that
Begin should be urged to
have greater sensitivity to
Falwell's position on school
prayers. The Moral Major-
ity seeks to "Christianize
America" and poses a threat
to religious pluralism in the
United States, he said. Be-
gin, without rejecting Fal-
well's friendship for -Israel,
should be "more careful" in
his approach to him.
Eizenstat was sharply
critical of Begin's flat re-
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STUART EIZENSTAT
jection of President
Reagan's Middle East
peace' initiative, an-
nounced by the President
last Sept. 1. He observed
that had President Car-
ter launched such an in-
itiative, "American
Jewry would have arisen
in outcry and would have
excoriated him."
But now, despite its rejec-
tion by Israel, key Ameri-
can Jewish leaders were
finding positive elements in
the Reagan proposals and
were "even recommending
the plan," Eizenstat wrote.
The attitude of the United
States has also undergone a
basic change with the de-
parture of Secretary of State
Alexander Haig and his re-
placement by George
Shultz, Eizenstat wrote.
He said Haig represented
a marked divergence from
the traditional State De-
partment line of evenhan-
dedness in the Middle East.
By contrast, the pre-
sent Secretary of State,
described by Eizenstat as
an honest, able, fair and
patient man, has a Middle
East conception "closer
to that of the Carter Ad-
ministration — including
Carter himself — and that
traditionally espoused by
the State Department.
This approach regards
the solution of the Pales•
tinian problem as the
central hinge around
which all other Mideast
matters are revolved. Ac-
cording to this concep-
tion, only if the Palesti-
nian instability is allevi-
ated and regional ten-
sions eased, will the prob-
lem which the Soviets are
seeking to exploit fade
away."
Eizenstat said Reagan's
initiative reflected his
endorsement of Shultz's ap-
proach and with Shultz, De-
fense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger and National
Security Adviser William
Clark at the helm of Ameri-
can policy, there is no one in
-the top echelon fighting for
Israel's viewpoint.
Therefore, Eizenstat pre-
dicted there would be "no
withdrawal" from Reagan's
Sept. 1 proposals.
The former White House
aide warned that American
Jewry must take care in
voicing its views on Israeli
national security issues.
"We must find new methods
of communication that will
make it easier for us to hold
a dialogue on the effect of
Israeli "policiesupon Jews
and upon public opinion in
the U.S.
"If American Jews are.
not prepared to support
blindly every decision of
the government of Israel
—just as they do not sup-
port every decision of the
U.S. government, they
must beware lest they be
used by the Administra-
tion as a stick with which
to beat Israel," Eizenstat
wrote.
Furthermore, he said,
American Jews must not
allow themselves to be
browbeaten by insinuations
regarding their patriotism.
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