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Eban's confidence mingled
with settlements warnings

Abba Eban, widely admired by
' 'many millions who have tuned in
to his nine-week, televised Heri-
tage series, is drawing additional
renewed attention to his views on
current Israeli conditions in his
revised one-time best seller My
People (Random House).
My People is history thoroughly
outlined, and in its original 500
pages there is a compilation of
facts that fulfills a great need for a
knowledge of the story of the
Jewish people. It is in the
addendum, the new chapter of 17
pages in the revised, paperback
edition, that Israel's eminent
Abba Eban
statesman, the former ambas-
in
Hebron;
and planning to blow
sador to the United States andlhe
up Arab buses in which women
United Nations, presents his
and children would have been
views on current conditions and
massacred. The violence itself
need in his country.
was disturbing. Even worse was
Eban takes into account the
that the murderous assaults were
difficulties that confront Israel
proclaimed to be a part of an
and the score of problems that
ideology advocating exclusive
Aierged with the operation in
Jewish domination in Israel and
Lebanon to end the PLO threats to
causing the flight of Arabs who
his country's security. In spite of
had lived in the country for gen-
the negatives, he has made this
erations. Though these atrocities
positive comment:
were condemned by many of the
"Israel of the mid-1980s is
settlers of the West Bank and
caught up in a conflict between its
Gaza, Israelis asked themselves
original dreams and its present
whether the consequence was' not
reality. It is much more solid,
an inevitable result of the cause.
more stable and stronger in confi-
"There are two principles that
dence than anyone could have im-
hold a society together. One is the
agined even a decade ago. In spite
democratic doctrine that govern-
of a towering inflation, the Israeli
ments derive "their just powers
economy is fundamentaly profuse
from the consent of the governed."
and productive. It produces goods
This is by far the most profound
and services to the value of $6.5
declaration in the political litera-
billion a year, a remarkable
ture of the modern age, and it
achievement for so small a labor
serves as the guiding light of
force. Israel has shown how a
democratic systems. To retain its
country can emerge in a single
fidelity to this principle Israel
generation from a primitive sub-
must surrender its jurisdiction
sistence economy to a place
over the populated parts of the
among the major industrial and
West Bank and Gaza. Such a deci-
technological states."
sion is fateful for itself and
Serious criticism is thereupon
charged with suspense and an-
leveled against the policy of ex-
guish for its well-wishers across
panded settlements in Samaria
the world. The other principle
and Judea. Eban warns of the
holding a society together is the
danger of acquiring an Arab popu-
principle of force and coercion.
lation of 1,300,000 in that area.
These dramatic choices are noth-
He declares that "Israel's moral
ing the founding fathers of Israel
and spiritual dilemmas are
with their lucid visions and uto-
acute." He is concerned with the
pian rhetoric, could possibly have
"force, coercion, volence, heroic
foreseen. The fact that the discus-
self-defense, less heroic reprisals
sion evolved in a Jewish state,
and unceasing-debate about what
against a background of Jewish
force can or cannot achieve." His
history, adds depth and poignancy
strong opposition to the acquisi-
to the dialogue."
tion of new territory and his con-
Thus, Eban's My People retains
demnation of violence by Jewish
its original values and gains new
extremists, a matter that has
emphasis in the revised edition.
aroused public opinion in and out
— P.S.
of Israel, is expressed by Eban in a
concluding declaration to his re-
vised My People:
NEWS

"But if Israel's material at-
tainments have proved impres-
sive, its moral and spiritual di-
lemmas are acute. A disquieting
number of Israel's appearances in
the world's headlines have some-
thing to do with force, coercion,
violence, heroic self-defense, less
heroic reprisals and unceasing
debate about what force can or
cannot achieve. In May 1984, sub-
terranean political movements
were apprehended and accused of
such acts as attempting to blow up
the Dome of the Rock, one of the
most sacred places for Muslims;
attempting the murder of Arab
mayors and achieving their muti-
lation; murdering students
emerging from a Muslim college

Israeli-made planes
praised in editorial

New York (JTA) — The New
York Times praised in an editorial
this week the Israeli-made pilot-
less aircraft and said that the
Pentagon's Remotely Piloted Ve-
hicles (RPV) are, in comparison,
ineffective and expensive.
Recalling that in June 1982 Is-
rael destroyed 19 Syrian missile
sites in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley
as well as 79 Syrian MIGS, The
Times said: "That feat of arms
hold a lesson to make the U ited
States Defense Depart ent
blush."

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