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VOL. LXXXIII, No. 15

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June 10, 1983

Joint Confederation Sought
for a Firm Arab-Israel Peace

Knesset Vote Kills
Unilateral Pull-Back

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset voted 55-47 Wed-
nesday to reject a Labor Alignment motion calling for a
unilateral two-stage withdrawal of Israeli forces from
Lebanon. There were three abstentions. But two members
of Likud's Liberal Party wing, Yitzhak Berman and Dror
Seigerman, voted with the opposition.
The Labor proposal called for the pull-back of Israeli
forces from its present lines in the dangerous Shouf Moun-
tain region now and complete withdrawal from Lebanon
within the next few months, regardless of whether Syria
refuses to withdraw its own forces from Lebanon.
Speaking for the government, Defense Minister Moshe
Arens warned that Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization forces would swiftly move into whatever territory
the Israel army evacuates. Labor Party chairman Shimon
Peres suggested that this could be prevented by posting the
multinational force, now in Beirut, in the Shouf Moun-
tains.
At the same session of the Knesset, government
spokesmen angrily denounced a recent suggestion by
Labor Party Secretary General Haim Barley that the
Golan Heights could be the subject for territorial
compromise with Syria. Israel captured the territory
in 1967 and annexed it in 1981.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said the proposal
was "a tactical error as well as bad policy" because it gave
from Leba-
the Syrians yet another reason not to
non. At the same time, Shamir closed off all talk of territo-
rial compromise on the Golan Heights as far as the gov-
ernment is concerned by declaring that the Golan is part of
the state of Israel. The Knesset must make it clear, he said,
that Israel is not ready to consider territorial compromise
there.
The issue was raised Tuesday in the Knesset's Foreign
Affairs and Security Committee by Likud MK Ehud 01-
mert, triggering a sharp exchange between coalition and
opposition members of the committee. Olmert contended
that such suggestions were especially harmful while the
United States was trying to persuade Syria to get out of
Lebanon. Laborites retorted that it was a Likud govern-
ment which returned Sinai to Egypt in exchange for peace.
Barley, a former chief of staff who is a member of the
committee, said he made the proposal at a private gather-
ing where he was unaware that a reporter was present. He
noted that the possibility of territorial compromise on the
Golan was contained in the Labor Party platform. Commit-
tee chairman Eliahu Ben-Elissar of Likud rejected all mo-
tions for a committee debate on the subject. A Knesset
motion on Barley's proposal was referred to committee by
Likud MK Ronni Milo:
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JERUSALEM — A plan for shared rule of the West Bank and Gaza by
Israel, Jordan and Palestinian Arabs was made public this week by a broadly-
based study group of Israeli academic and political figures who said it offered
"the only realistic option for peace in the area."
The proposal, which calls for Palestinian autonomy within a joint Israeli-
Jordanian condominium in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza District, was con-
tained in a 21-page report issued by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The
center is a privately-funded think-tank in Jerusalem headed by Prof. Daniel
Elazar, a Detroit-born political scientist who teaches at Bar-Ilan University in
Israel. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Elazar, who now make their home in
Jerusalem. Albert is a former superintendent of United Hebrew Schools.
Prof. Elazar served as chairman of the study group. Its other members were:
Prof. Emeritus Benjamin Akzin of Hebrew University, long iden-
tified with Prime Minister Begin's Herut Party; Gabriel Ben-Dor, pro-
DANIEL ELAZAR
rector and professor of political science at Haifa University; Moshe
Drori, legal adviser to the Judea-Samaria regional military government,
1970-1974; Haggai Eshel, political affairs columnist for the pro-Labor Hebrew daily Davar;
Yehezkel Flomin, a former Liberal Party member of the Israeli Knesset; Joseph Lanir, a member
of the Labor Party directorate and a leader of the United Kibutz movement, Kibutz Hamekhad;
Shmuel Sandler, active in National Religious Party affairs; and Zalman Shoval, a former Knesset
member representing the late Moshe D ay-
an's Telem Party.
The consensus of the study group was that,
"given the conflicting Jewish and Arab claims
and demographic and political realities,"
shared rule was "realistic" and "a just com-
BONN, West Germany -- The writings of Theodor
promise." The report said existing forms of self-
Herzl, the founder and organizer of modern Zionism, are to
rule or autonomy have proved to be "workable
be preserved for posterity in a joint undertaking by the
University of Duisburg (North Rhine-Westphalia), the
arrangements" in such heterogeneous societies
Martin Buber Institute in Cologne, the Institute for Zionist
as Canada, India, Switzerland and Austria —
History in Tel Aviv, and the Zionist Central Archives in
all of which, the report says, enjoy "self-rule/
Jerusalem.
shared-rule arrangements."
Political -science Prof. Julius H. Schoeps, one of the
The study rejects as neither practical nor
publishers of the first in a series of seven volumes — corre-
acceptable
to all sides the three other possible
spondence and autobiographical notes from the period
approaches to the Judea-Samaria-Gaza prob-
1866-1898 — says there is a
lem generally discussed:
dearth of authentic docu-
• Israeli withdrawal to its pre-1967 bor-
ments to help to understand
ders, described as "totally unacceptable" to the
the life and influence of
Herzl.
great majority of Israelis.
A German-speaking
• Unilateral Israeli annexation of the West
Austro-Hungarian Jew,
Bank, which has "no chance of being accepted"
Herzl was a well-traveled
by the Arabs or the international community,
author when he began to
and which is also opposed by many in Israel as
focus his energies on politics
representing
"a serious domestic threat" be-
during the 1890s. He be-
cause of the need to absorb more than one mil-
came the spokesman of a
lion Arab residents of the territories.
nationalist Jewry and or-
• Repartition of the territory, which has
ganized the first Zionist
been "firmly rejected" by the Arabs and which
convention in Basel, Swit-
zerland, in 1897. Later
the report says has been "effectively jettisoned"
Herzl became the first
by the Camp David accords. Partitioning Judea

German, Israel Units
to Print Herzl Papers

,

.

president of the World
Zionist Organization.

THEODOR HERZL

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The U.S. Rebukes a Jewish 'Anti-Zionist Committee' in USSR

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Reagan
Administration on Tuesday denounced as
"patently false" the assertion by the head
of the "Anti-Zionist Committee of the
Soviet Public" that the majority of Soviet
Jews who desire to emigrate from the
Soviet Union have already left.
"Many thousands of Jews, some esti-
mates range into the hundreds of
thousands, are still denied this fundamen-
tal right of freedom of movement on the
flimsiest pretext," State Department de-
puty spokesman Alan Romberg said. "It is
particularly deplorable that the Soviet re-
gime should now enlist some people of

Jewish ancestry to participate in their
anti-Semitic diatribe."
The sharp U.S. rebuke followed the
claim by Samuel Zivs, a Jewish law
professor in Moscow who heads the
anti-Zionist group, which was recently
formed by the Soviet authorities, that
all Russian Jews who wanted to leave
the USSR have already done so and
that Zionist groups are "juggling fig-
ures" to show that large numbers of
Jews still wish to emigrate. Zivs' claims
were carried in Tass, the official Soviet
news agency.
According to Tass, the committee, es-

tablished last April, endorses Israel's right
to exist but is opposed to the policies of
Premier Menahem Begin's government
and supports the creation of a Palestinian
state. The committee is chaired by Gen.
David Dragunsky, one of the highest rank-
ing Jewish officers in the Red Army, now
retired.
The State Department said that
"while this particular statement was pur-
ported to reject anti-Semitism, in fact the -
basic trust of this and other anti-Zionist
propaganda is anti-Semitic." Romberg
pointed out specifically a statement by -
Dragunsky who was quoted as saying,

"The time is now for us to make more con-
certed efforts to counter international
Zionism and to rebuff the anti-Soviet cam-
paign it mounts. The actions of Begin and
his thugs are very similar to those of Hit-
ler's atrocities," he was quoted as saying by
Tass.
In a brief speech in Congress on Wed-
nesday, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) chal-
lenged Soviet leader Yuri Andropov "to
open the gates and let the world see
whether emigration from the Soviet Union
has stopped because the Russian govern-
ment stopped it or because Soviet Jews no
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