THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 29, 1983 11
Arab-Israel - Solution Needs Evolutionary Changes
By VICTOR
BIENSTOCK
The failure was due to the
drop in the great Arab pletely. Iran represents a is "to flout reality."
fundamental refusal of the
ocean. Our nation is the dangerous possibility."
,
Can there ever be Arab- Arab states to accept the
He dismisses talk of Arab
great Arab nation extend-
Both the scholar and the
Isradi peace in the Middle reality of a Jewish state in
ing from the Atlantic to the diplomat express opposition "disenchantment" with the
East?
their midst. And not all of
West because, he says,
Red Sea and beyond.' "
to the concept of a Palesti-
A visiting Italian scholar President Reagan's carrots
"
there was never an
Rossi
sees
no
hope
for
nian Arab state on the West
at Harvard University says for the Arab rulers and
:
peace except in Bank. To expect it, says enchantment to begin with.
.?'
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No unless Islam changes sticks for the Israelis could
T he democratic way of life is
the long term. '"It is possi- Rossi, "is to do the Palesti-
its attitude towards the bring about any change in
r
repugnant
to all Arab re-
ble,"
he
says,
and
this
nians themselves no serv-
West, or the Jews in Israel the situation.
gimes. That is why there
probably represents the ice."
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shed their Western outlook
it is quite possible," says
only hope — that sometime
He argues, "We can only has never been a shred of
4.
and become more Oriental. Mario Rossi, the Italian
in the future the Israelis contribute to progress if we democracy in any Arab
A leading Israeli dip- scholar, in trying to explain
country save for tiny Leba- -
will have adapted them- accept the premise that a
kL
lomat similarly expresses the Arab attitude, "that the
selves sufficiently to their solution is not for tomorrow non where it struggles to
doubt because, he says, Arabs will refuse to recog-
environment to become less or the day after but that a survive against the forces of
non-Arab or non-Moslem . nize Israel tomorrow or in
Western and more Oriental. major evolution must take intolerance and terrorism
people can be accepted only the foreseeable future, not
that plague the Arab
The Arabs, for their part, place before it can be world."
in a state of subjugation in because they are Jews, but
may evolve in the opposite envisaged." Meanwhile, he
VICTOR
BI
BIENSTOCK
an Arab-dominated world because they are Wester-
direction so that the two says, the objective should
The continuing unrest in
— and the Israelis are not ners.
His view that the Arab communities will no longer be to see that the Camp the
Middle
about to permit themselves
East,
"Arabs," he wrote re- world will continue to reject be mutually incompatible.
to be subjugated.
David agreements are Netanyahu emphasizes,
cently in the Christian Sci- Israel does not differ greatly
"On that day, the Arabs "honestly executed."
"isn't generated by the
The basic question ence Monitor," will accept from that of Benjamin
Netanyahu warns that Palestinian problem but by
whether an Arab-Israeli Western technology and Netanyahu, charge d'af- and the Jews may reach a
difficult coexistence, just for Israel to give up the the propensity for violence
peace is possible at all forms of progress but not to faires of the Fsrael Embassy
must be given serious become Western them- in Washingtcin since Moshe as the Muslims and the West Bank would be to strip in the Arab world and the
Maronite Christians of itself of its minimum secu- general intolerance toward
consideration with the selves. The West," he as- Arens resigned the ambas-
Lebanon
have," al- rity zone and the basis of de- non-Arab peoples. Neither
failure of the latest at- serts," is as alien to Islam as sadorship to become minis-
tempt — the Reagan Plan Islam is to the West. They ter of defense. Netanyahu though, he concedes, terrence against the Arab these tendencies nor the
- to bring about a set- respect each other but will examines the prospects of they "still go on murder- armies surrounding it_— a need of some Arab states for
tlement of the Palestine never become integrated. peace against the back- - ing each other on a grand return to May 1967 when the West will be affected in
"Israel lives as if with a any way by whether or not
Arab question. The col- They are two worlds apart ground of incessant conflict scale."
But there is also the pos- noose around its neck." Israel yields up the sliver of
lapse of the Reagan effort and they propose to remain among the Arab states and sibility,
Rossi notes ; "that
To tell Israel, he adds,
territory (roughly the size
was not due to disagree- so."
their aggressions against instead of moving - toward
of Greater Los Angeles)
ment over specific issues
As Rossi sees it, "Israel each other which are the West, the Muslims will that its best security is a
that is, however, indispens-
even of such magnitude in relation to Islam is like checked "only by the im- end up by rejecting it com- peace dependent on
treaties and guarantees
as the future of the Pales- a foreign agent that a pression of countervailing
able to its defense."
tinian Arabs or contin- body tends to expel." He power."
ued Israeli settlement on believes, "With Israel, it
Since Lawrence of
the West Bank although is not so much the reli-
Arabia's characterization of
these were the explana- gion that is alien (to - Is- the Arab regimes 55 years
tions advanced.
lam) but the way of life."
ago as "tyrannies cemented
by blood," he says, "nothing
has changed. The Arab
world is littered with
broken agreements."
Making peace among
The Senior Adult De- is available for persons themselves is hard enough
partment of the Jewish age 60 and older. There ' for the Arab states,"
Community Center is spon- will be refreshments, Netanyahu writes in the
soring a senior adult camp entertainment and Wall Street Journal. "Mak-
reunion and information movies about camp at the ing peace with non-Arabs is
party for seniors who reunion. The public is in- even harder. For the Arabs
attended or would like to v _ ited.
regard the area from
attend summer camp at the
The senior adults re- Morocco to the Persian Gulf
Butzel Senior Citizen Cen- cently presented a musical as theirs, as Arab, despite
ter. "Salute to Israel and the the presence of numerous
The reunion will be held 1 U.S.A." Some 200 persons peoples that make up a size-
p.m. May 11 at the Jimmy attended the program, able portion of the popula-
Prentis Morris Branch of which was written and di- tion — Berbers, Kurds,
the Jewish Community rected by Lillian Zellman. Copts, Druse, Jews, Circas-
Sidney Resnick and Ruth sians, Armenians, blacks
Center. ,
Savage were featured sol- and others.
The summer program oists.
-
"These non-Arab or
memw:wv'zwtm
non-Moslem people," he
, ....,.
declares, "can be - ac-
cepted only in a state of
subjugation, within a
dominant Arab domain,
never as independent
equals. That is why the
Arabs would be as hostile
to any non-Arab sover-
eign state — say a Berber
one in North Africa or a
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But while enmity to Is-
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