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Still, Breger, like other U.S. servers in Washington — both in and out of government — belive and Israeli officials in Washing- the relationship will quickly ton, conceded that there had been bounce back to its pre-hostage some problems, especially during the early days of the crisis. "Is- state of intimacy. In the immediate aftermath of raeli officials need to be more sen- the release of the hostages, this sitive than heretofore about the optimistic assessment was also statements they make in Kiryat the message being conveyed both Shemona, Dimona and Eilat," he publicly as well as privately by said. "They may think they are President Ronald Reagan, Secre- speaking strictly for domestic tary of State George Shultz and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. In their various In the end, what does statements, they stressed the im- portance of maintaining this bed- very clearly emerge is rock relationship. Many former U.S. officials, dur- the fact that Israel ing interviews on American tele- was certainly more vision news programs, went out of their way to underline the strong determined to foundations upon which the maintain strong ties American-Israeli relationship is with the United based. Thus, former Secretary of State States than vice Henry Kissinger, former Under Secretaries Lawrence Eag- versa. leburger and Joseph Sisco, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis and many others consumption, but the next morn- predicted that any erosion of U.S. ing those statements appear on public support for Israel — as re- U.S. television." flected during the hostage crisis Israel, he said, has to be more — will prove to be very short- alert to the fact that "the interna- lived. tional community is listening in" William Hyland, a former on statements made by Israeli senior State Department aide to leaders within Israel. Kissinger who now edits Foreign What Breger was referring to Affairs quarterly, suggested that were some of the early remarks the relationship may even become made by. Israeli leaders in the stronger as a result of some of the days immediately following the lessons learned during the Beirut hijacking of TWA flight 847. De- drama. fense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Appearing during the middle of among other Israeli leaders, the crisis on the CBS Morning argued that this was strictly an News, both Eagleburger and American problem, that Israel Lewis agreed that U.S. interests had nothing to do with it. in the Middle East are actually To the American audience, this enhanced when the Washington- line of thinking showed an incred- Jeruljalem connection is ible lack of sensitivity to the fate strongest. When the two countries of the American hostages given are moving together in harmony, the fact that their Shi'ite captors they said, America's stock among were seeking the release of the moderate Arabs also is on the up- Lebanses detainees held at the swing. They were responding to Atlit prison camp near Haifa. suggestions by some that the U.S. Fortunately for Israel, Rabin ought to distance itself from Israel and other Israeli spokesman and adopt a more "evenhanded" eventually realized their mistake. policy in the region. This sup- They started to speak differently. posedly would remove the U:S. as There was greater understanding a terrorist target. of America's predicament. Prime Other observers noted that Minister Shimon Peres re- previous downturns in public peatedly told U.S. reporters that popularity for Israel also proved Israel felt toward the American to be only temporary — that fol- captives almost as if they were Is- lowing the immediate crisis rael's own people. which provoked- any such slip- It should be pointed out that the page, the polls rebounded to U.S. and Israel were not totally where they were before. the losers in this hostage crisis. This was certainly true in 1982, They had, after all, managed to during the summer siege of Beirut win the release of the hostages by Israeli air, ground and sea and to maintain their public stand forces. Support for Israel also fell of delinking the release of the hos- at that time. It later dropped some tages and the Shiite detainees in more after Israel's indirect in- Israel. volvement in the massacres of Indeed, they had managed to Palestinians by Lebanese Chris- deal with Shiite Amal leader tians at Sabra and Shatila. But Nabih Bern eyeball-to-eyeball despite those setbacks, Israel's and to have Berri, for whatever image in the United States reason, blink. quickly rose to a new, higher level of support. Thus, Israel did not have to re- "I don't believe the relationship lease the Shiites in advance of the was really injured," said Dr, Mar- release of the Americans — as