40 Friday, July 29, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Rosenne Takes Long, Positive View of U.S.-Israel Relations By DAVID FRIEDMAN WASHINGTON (JTA) — Meir Rosenne, Israel's new Ambassador to the United States, believes that rela- tions between Israel and the U.S. have always been good because the two countries share the common princi- ples of democracy and free- dom and that the reports of U.S. pressure on Israel have been exaggerated. "I don't think that the talk about American pres- 25°/ 10 TM OFF ALL INVITATIONS ANNIVERSARY DEBORAH'S INVITATIONS Created Just For You Personalized Cocktail Napkins $9 per 100 DEBBIE GOLDFINE WEISSERMAN 537-1490 sure on Israel is true," he said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "It is utterly false." Instead, Rosenne argues that the U.S. has used its "good offices" to help Israel negotiate the Camp David agreements, the Israel- Egyptian peace treaty and the recent agreement with Lebanon. 52-year-old The Rosenne has the creden- tials to make this point. As legal adviser to the Is- rael Foreign Ministry from 1971 to 1979, he par- ticipated in the negotia- tions with Egypt and Syria following the 1973 Yom Kippur War and in all the negotiations lead- ing to the peace treaty with Egypt. He headed the Israeli team for the autonomy negotiations until he was named Am- bassador to France in 1979, a post he held until coming to Washington June 5. Rosenne appeared to ar- rive at a time of almost euphoric relations between Israel and the U.S. follow- ing the Israeli-Lebanese agreement that had been signed May 17. But he stressed that the reports of a "terrible relationship be- tween our two countries" that had existed since Israel went into Lebonon were exaggerated. 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A tc,0091 CRE 401144 1/494tp `Mother Goose Rhyme Called Anti-Semitic *ONE WEEK ONLY * 851 -2788 MEIR ROSENNE there should be negotia- tions between the Arab states and the state of Is- rael," Rosenne said. "But this has been rejected by the Arab states because they hope that peace can be im- posed from the outside .. . They hope that others will do the job for them either by imposing sanctions" as the European Economic Com- munity did last year "or by giving the impression that Israel is intransigent." But Rosenne said that Israel has shown in its negotiations with Egypt that it was "ready to give up a lot ... in order to sign a peace treaty with the first Arab state that was ready to negotiate with us." As for Syria, Rosenne noted that since 1948 it was always the last Arab state willing to sign an agree- ment with Israel. He pointed out that Syria now controls 50 percent of Leba- non and has never accepted the idea of an independent Lebanon nor ever had an Ambassador in Beirut. "We hope there will be an Israeli Ambassador in Beirut," he added. Rosenne is still hopeful that Syria would agree to withdraw. "We hope that the Syrians will reach the conclusion that in 1983 you just can't dominate a sover- eign state and agree to re- spect the sovereign rights of Lebanon and the territorial integrity of this country," he said. Until then, Israeli troops will remain in Lebanon but there will be a redeploy- ment which will be done in a way as not to endanger the lives of civilians or Israeli troops, Rosenne stressed. He said Lebanese troops will take over the positions vacated by Israel and he be- lieves that the Lebanese army is now "numerically and qualitatively" capable of preventing the Syrians from moving into these areas. . Rosenne was born in Isai, Romania and as a child he saw 10,000 Jews taken from his town and killed by Nazi troops and their Romanian suppor- ters. His family fled to Palestine and he went to school in Tel Aviv before receiving a Masters de- gree in political science and a Doctorate in inter- national law at the Sor- bonne. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Advanced Interna- tional Studies in Paris. He was Israeli Consul General in New York from 1961 to 1967 and re- presented Israel on var- ious international bodies. It is this background that accounts for the way he sees his job. "Every Israeli representative knows he is a Jew and an Israeli," he said. "You represent not only the Jews that live in Israel today, but you also represent all those that didn't have this privilege of seeing the Israeli flag, those that died in the ghettoes, the concentration camps and all those that fought in the War of Independence." 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