THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, September 2, 1983 New Vance Volume Details Foreign Policy Under Carter Carter's memoirs, "Keeping Faith," and Brzezinski's "Power and Principles," confirms that there were differences over foreign pol- icy within the Administra- tion, particularly due to the rivalry between Vance and Brzezinski. But the one area where there seemed to be cooperation and agree- ment was the Middle East. of his tenure as President Carter's Secretary of State, "Hard Choices" (Simon and Schuster), all three of the chief architects of the Car- -ter Administration's foreign policy — Carter, Vance and Zbigniew Brze- zinski, who was national se- curity adviser — have pub- lished books. The Vance book, as did By DAVID FRIEDMAN WASHINGTON (JTA) — Now that Cyrus Vance has weighed in with his account BINGO Tuesday, Sept. Only B'nai David 7:00 P.M. 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He could be seen both at home and in Israel as tilting toward the Arabs and pressuring Israel to make dangerous territorial con- cessions . ." Vance goes on to say that "The President and I were convinced that no lasting solution in the Middle East would be possible until, con- sistent with Israel's right to live in peace and security, a just answer to the Palesti- nian question could be found, one almost certainly leading to a Palestinian homeland and some form of self-determination." To that end, Vance makes clear the Administration sought for a way to bring the Palestine Liberation Organization into the Mideast negotiations, only to be frustrated, as has the Reagan Administration, by the PLO's refusal to do even the minimum required of it by the U.S. The position that Vance outlined as the Carter Administration prepared to take office was essentially the same one it followed for the entire four years. The Carter Administration remained wedded to seeking a comprehensive settlement, rather than a step-by-step approach, a position that the Reagan Administration also be- lieves in principle. ISRAELI IMP II•1 MN 11111111 NO MI Even before Carter took office, he and Vance agreed that the United States would have to play an active role in seeking a Middle East settlement. "Without question, the bedrock of the Carter Middle East policy would continue to be our commitment to Israel's se- curity," Vance wrote. But he adds: Hebrew Book ft Gift Center 11 Mile & Lahser, Southfield Harvard Row 356-6080 Open All Day Sunday The Carter Administra- tion pushed the comprehen- sive approach after Egyp- tian President Anwar Sadat went to Jerusalem, when he realized an agreement could not be reached through a general settlement, and even after the Camp David agreements. Yet, Vance learned on his first trip to the Mideast, that while Egypt and Israel were not far apart, "the real problem was disunity among the Arabs." However, it does not seem that Vance ever learned what an Israeli official tried to point out to reporters in Washington earlier this year, that there is no con- sensus among the Arabs ex- cept enmity toward Israel. On everything else they disagree, and so peace can only be made with each country separately. Vance's book confirms that the major issue which strained U.S.- Israeli relations during the Carter Administra- tion was the establish- ment of Jewish settle- ments in Judea and Samaria. But Vance does not reveal in his book any of the deep anger over the issue that Brzezinski, in his memoirs, attributes to him. above all the Americans with whom they dealt in the Carter Administration be- cause they considered him to be a gentleman. It was this characteristic that Brzezinski criticized in his memoirs. Yet one would wish that Vance was less gentlemanly in "Hard Choices," which was writ- ten in the style of a State Department press briefing. While there is no need to go into how U.S. officials really felt about foreign leaders, as Brzezinski did, Vance could have provided more details about the events he covered. He also left some things out, such as Andrew Young's resignation as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations after de- ceiving the State De- partment about his meet- ing with a PLO official, and the 1980 U.S. vote for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel which Carter sub- sequently reversed. Vance, who maintains that "Hard Choices" is not a diplomatic history or a memoir, does not go into the criticism • of personalities that characterized the Brzezinski book. He has kind words to say for Pre- mier Menahem Begin and former Ambassador Simha Dinitz who was savaged by Brzezinski. But the Israeli who Vance admired most and for whom he seems to have a genuine affection was the late Moshe Dayan, with whom he dealt as Israeli foreign minister. The Israelis, including Be- gin, always liked Vance Vance was directly in- volved in both controversies and it would have been use- ful to have his views on such important events. The dryness of the Vance book has brought it less at- tention than the Brzezinski or Carter accounts. Yet all these books should be read, particularly by those with a special interest in the Mid- dle East, because they tell not only how an official views the events in which he participated, but how foreign policy is made. HOME BURGLAR ALARMS ALLSTATE ALARM SYSTEMS INC Computerized Security Systems Thousands of Satisfied Customers Central Station - Direct to Police CALL DAY or NIGHT 255-1540 Stanley H. Kaplan The Smart MOVE! 1mA war) ate.par" —,,_..,,..„,...Avr u : -vao ........... 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