12 Friday; June 7, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS OliLDN'T YOU RATHER HAVE 39 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE APPRAISE YOUR DIAMONDS AND FINE JEWELRY? THEN YOUR BEST BET 15 • INSURANCE APPRAISALS 4, ESTATE & BANK APPRAISALS . COURT APPRAISERS • ESTATE LIQUIDATIONS • GEMOLOGICAL CERTIFICATE 40 LABORATORY REPORTS Call for your private appointment and ask about our new price schedule Since 1946 - This is where it all Started Hear first hand accounts of the actual RESPONSE to BITBURG CHAIM, the Children of Holocaust-Survivors Association In Michigan, invites you to hear BERNIE KENT and CHARLEY SILOW discuss their recent trip to Bergen-Belsen undertaken as part of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Bernie Kent RESPONSE to PRESIDENT REAGAN'S BITBURG VISIT. Sunday, June 9, 7:00 P.M. Jewish Community Center Room 239 West Bloomfield, Michigan NO ADMISSION CHARGE Charley Mow JOIN CHAIM TODAY! YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED! IN • OM 111n 1110•11 NM MI NIM NM MIMEO IN NE NM NI NM NI NE M= MI IN 11•I EMMEN Yes, I would like to help support the work of Children of Holocaust-Survivors Association In Michigan by joining CHAIM and making the following contribution: ri Patron n Sponsor Friend ri Contributor • Member $250 $100 $50 $25 $15 Name Address City State/Zip Phone Mail this form and your tax-deductible contribution to CHAIM, 30805 Heimanciale, Franklin, Michigan 48025 this is no pipedream. David Ignatius, the respected dip- lomatic correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, reported last week that "a number of U.S. officials, in what might be described as a triumph of hope over experience, remain strangely optimistic about what might happen" in the aftermath of Hussein's visit to Washington. "The Reagan Administra- tion, it seems, has a little secret," Ignatius said. "The U.S. believes that Mr. Arafat, the man of the scraggly beard and dithering leadership, may be ready to do what he has avoided doing for 18 years — an- nounce his unequivocal pub- lic support for UN Resolution 242 and Israel's right to exist. Believe it or not, that's what American officials have heard. And with Mr. Arafat willing to provide cover, the U.S. _ thinks that King Hus- sein may at last_be_ ready to take the plunge into direct negotiations with Israel." Reagan's reference to the need for direct talks to get underway by the end of this year was no slip of the tongue. He read it from a carefully prepared statement. The time frame is signiicant. There is in Washington today an acute appreciation of the politics of Jerusalem, especially the scheduled end-of-1986 transfer of prime ministerial leadership to Yit- zhak Shamir. The Americans want Peres to sit atop the Cabinet during any peace negotations with Jordan and other Arabs. Hussein has by no means given up on the peace option, although he repeatedly warned during his public and private statements this week that time was running out. So far, U.S. officials said, he still disagrees with Jerusalem's former deputy mayor Meron Benvenisti, whose West Bank Data Proj- ect has concluded that Is- rael's settlement activities have effectively curtailed any peaceful exchange of land for peace. A senior Re- agan administration official who briefed reporters at the White House following the Reagan-Hussein meeting agreed that time was cer- tainly running out — but he insisted that there was still enough time for a deal based on Resolution 242. The ques- tion, however, is how much time. The most recent fighting in the Palestinian refugee . camps of Lebanon, he added, should serve to spur the PLO leadership into recognizing the futility of continuing its "armed struggle" against Is- rael. That path has brought only misery, death and de- struction to the Palestinians for years. Now is the time for negotiations. Hussein has known this for years. But he has been unable to capitalize on his .own particular vision of a peaceful region. He may in- deed be courageous, but there are limits to his cour- It's time for Arafat to embrace a new strategy or getout of the way. age. He risks not only politi- cal suicide by moving too boldly with Israel, but actual physical destruction as well. He is very much aware of the fact that Syria is his powerful neighbor to the north. There are limits be- yond which he can not move without risking assassina- tion. Still, there are oppor- tunities. "The pieces are all in place," wrote Ignatius, re- flecting a widely held view within the State Depart- ment. "The key is for Mr. Arafat to bite the bullet: to admit that his previous strategy — mixing peace feelers and guerrilla attacks, maintaining a PLO consen- sus by trying to please all factions — has been a disas- trous failure. The PLO chairman has brought mis- ery and ruin wherever he has tried to operate; in Am- man, in Beirut, in northern Lebanon, as well as to his Is- raeli victims. It's time for him to admit that he has failed and either embrace a new strategy of negotiations or get out of the way." U.S. officials clearly be- lieve that there has been a' positive change in Arafat. And that, they said, is criti- cal right now. All of which, they said, points to some significant opportunities in the coming weeks and months. Reagan and his senior foreign policy advisers have made clear their readiness to work hard in getting negotiations off the ground. The U.S., they promised Hussein, will not be aloof. But there is still a considerable way to go before that promise of negotiations is actually realized.