THE bEfil61TJEWISH NEWS Friday, November 29, 1985 HAPPY CHANUKAH COMMENT Achille Lauro's Lesson Sinks In For Some FROM YOUR FRIENDLY GREAT SCOTT SUPERMARKET CANDLE LIGHTING TIME 4:43 P.M. BY VICTOR BIENSTOCK Special to The Jewish News The lesson of the Achille Lauro people, it would take extraordi- - • is beginning to sink into the con- nary courage on Hussein's part to sciousness of the chancellories of negotiate directly with the Is- the Western world. Our states- raelis without Arafat's blessing. men and stategists are at last be- But several realities have be- ginning to understand that if they come clear in the aftermath of the run with Yassir Arafat and his Achille Lauro hijacking, the Wall Palestine Liberation Organiza- Street Journal pointed out edito- tion, they run with terrorists and rially. "The first is that the PLO is engage in a fruitless search for not the key to peace in the Middle peace through violence. East. The past, long-running de- By his martyrdom, Leon Klin- bate among individuals about ghoffer, murdered in cold blood by whether the PLO represents all the terrorists, may once and for all Palestinians, is water over the have shattered any remaining dam. The Palestinian people are hopes that peace can be attained sympathetic people with real through negotiations with Arafat grievances, but the PLO as a and his PLO. productive political actor by any- "Violence does not create one's measure is washed up. It is peace," Richard von Weizsacker, finished." the West German president, told a The loss of PLO status even Jerusalem audience in a sadly within the Arab states was re- under-reported speech a few days flected in Tunisia, where 82- before the hijacking of the Italian year-old President Habib Bour- cruise liner. "Nor can its condem- guiba was insisting that the PLO nation accomplish this (peace). It be required to move its headquar- can only serve as a reminder that ters out of the country on the peace is the goal." grounds that it was a continuing Ta those who cannot think of source of trouble for the country. the West German Republic with- Bourguiba has refused to re- ., out remembering the tragedy and ceive Arafat since the Achille anguish of the Hitler era, it is not Lauro hijacking but most of his always easy to remember that the cabinet — and his wife, who is a Bonn Government, from the days political power in her own right — of Konrad Adenauer to the pre- oppose his stand and call for a sent, regardless of what party was cooling of relations with the in power, stands alone among the United States to show continued major nations of the world in its displeasure over the American refusal to traffic in arms with the failure to disapprove the Israeli countries of the Middle East. bombing raid on the PLO head- West Germany alone, despite quarters outside Tunis. the enormous pressures from its In Egypt, the hijacking con- armaments industry and threats fronted President Hosni Mubarak from would-be customers like with the most volatile crisis of his Saudi Arabia, its major oil presidency. His personal probity supplier, has refused to sell arms was brought under question by to the Arab countries while Brit- his insistence that the four ter- ain and France have been compet- rorists had escaped Egypt before ing desperately for Middle East the murder of an American markets even as the former main- passenger on the liner had been tained an embargo on arms for Is- known, a statement which later rael. was proved false. Now though, it appears other Mubarak faced a choice of countries may finally be falling in weakening his domestic position step with the West Germans. and his efforts to regain Egypt's Whether Britain acted out of position in the Arab League on disgust over the piracy- the one hand, and jeopardizing hijacking-murder exploit of a American support and sympathy PLO faction when it cancelled the along with the American aid of meeting between the British about $2.5 billion this year. Ap- Foreign Secretary and two Pales- parently, he chose to risk the tinians prominently identified American relationship in the be- with the PLO, or whether it lief that he could mend bridges reacted to the expressions of out- with Washington later whereas rage by the newspapers which the loss of control of the Egyptian were among Prime Minister Mar- masses would be fatal. garet Thatcher's strongest sup- He is not, consequently, moti- porters is moot. What is signific- vated solely by wounded pride and ant is that the British govern- love of Arafat. He still considers ment publicly refused to deal with Arafat the key to Egypt's reentry PLO members who refused to sign into the comity of Arab nations, a statement renouncing violence just as Hussein formerly consid- and recognizing Israel's right to ered Arafat the evil he had to bear. exist. The only interested party who had not learned the lesson of the King Hussein had assured the Achille Lauro is Yassir Arafat British that the two Palestinians himself. For years he has relied on Mrs. Thatcher had invited would violence — against Israel, against sign such a declaration. Their re- Jews and against Arabs who did fusal to do so gave England an not agree with his tactics. It has excuse to escape from a diplomati- not achieved its goal. More than cally embarrasing situation. It any other single terrorist act — remained, however, not only a perhaps because it was just one setback in the current maneuvers too many for the world to swallow of the Hussein peace initiative, — the hijacking of the Achille but a prime embarrassment to the Lauro and the senseless murder Jordanian ruler. that marked it may spell the be- Since the Arab League has ginning of the end of Yassir designated the PLO as sole repre- Arafat and the PLO. sentative of the Palestinian 67 -.4 LIMIT 3 PLEASE SAVE 26` CARMEL POTATO PANCAKE MIX 3-OZ. 494 BOX EMPIRE POTATO SAVE 50c PANCAKES MOTT'S KOSHER FOODS AVAILABLE AT: • TELEGRAPH/LONG LAKE IN BLOOMFIELD TWP. • ORCHARD LAKE/13 MILE RD. IN FAMINGTON HILLS • TELEGRAPH & MAPLE RD. BLOOMFIELD PLAZA • 12 MILE/EVERGREEN IN SOUTHFIELD • ANN ARBOR RD./SHELDON PLYMOUTH TWP. [ MOST STORES OPEN DAILY 8 A.M. TO 10 P.M. SUNDAY 8 A.M. TO 9 P.M. PRICES & ITEMS EFFECTIVE THRU DEC. 5, 1985. NO SALES TO DEALERS.