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Friday, September 26, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WOLF BLITZER
Shamir Will Find Peres
A Tough Act To Follow
he recent visits to
Washington by Prime
Minister Shimon Peres
and Defense Minister Yitz-
hak Rabin underlined the
generally strong state of
American-Israeli relations on
the eve of next month's
transfer of power in Jeru-
salem. As far as the United
States is concerned, Yitzhak
Shamir is going to have a
tough act to follow.
U.S. and Israeli officials
agreed that the relationship
right now was excellent, vir-
tually across the board. There
is certainly an era of good
feeling toward Israel in the
American capital — in both
the Executive as well as
Legislative branch of the
government. Even the major
national news media seem
more supportive of Israel.
Americans like the general-
ly open and frank approach of
the Labor leadership, as com-
pared to the more shrill tones
during the Likud years in of-
fice, first under Menachem
Begin and then Shamir. There
is less friction and tension
under the surface, greater
confidence and trust.
Both Peres and Rabin
served Israel's interests well
during their visits to Wash-
ington. In short, American of-
ficials are pleased by the
policies coming from Jeru-
salem nowadays.
Publicly, they maintain
that this will continue after
Peres swaps jobs with Shamir
in October. Privately, there
are some serious misgivings.
"We're hoping for the best,
but bracing for the worst," an
American specialist on the
Middle East said. Like other
U.S. officials, he clearly ap-
preciated what he said was
the "basically flexible" style
of Peres and Rabin - as op-
posed to "a certain rigidity"
adopted by Shamir and his
Likud colleagues.
Even if there is not all that
much difference in substance
on key issues, diplomatic
style — the way a policy is
stated — can make all the dif-
ference in the world.
Reagan Administration of-
ficials also continue to point
out that Peres and Rabin,
while in the Opposition, were
basically open-minded in
reacting to President Ronald
Reagan's Sept. 1, 1982 peace
initiative while Begin's
Likud-led coalition had in-
stantly rejected it out of
hand.
Peres and Rabin are very
sensitive to Israel's image in
America, especially with the
Administration and Con-
gress. They tried during their
public and private statements
to underscore their will-
ingness to accommodate, as
much as possible, America's
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major concerns and interests
in the Middle East without
sacrificing Israel's.
How they phrased their
positions, therefore, was very
impressisve to the Ameri-
cans. Instead of constantly
declaring "no" and rejecting
all sorts of peace options,
Peres and Rabin repeatedly
tried to say "yes," hoping to
put the burden for any diplo-
matic stalemate and military
tension on the Arab side.
This was very apparent
when Peres addressed the
Washington Institute for
Near East Policy last week
and when Rabin spoke before
the Heritage Foundation a
few days earlier. Both are in-
fluential Washington "think
tanks."
There were many important
State Department, Pentagon
and White House officials,
Congressional staffers, jour-
nalists, academicians and
others in the audiences; most
emerged with a greater sense
of understanding for Israel's
security predicament and of
confidence in Israel's readi-
ness to take chances for
peace.
This positive attitude
toward the top Labor leader-
ship, most especially toward
Peres, was repeatedly sig-
nalled during the Prime
Minister's two days of talks
in Washington. He won
unusually strong kudos from
President Reagan Vice Presi-
dent George Bush Secretary
of State George Shultz,
Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger, and many others.
Israel's best friends in the
Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives were clearly
delighted by Peres' perfor-
mance during a joint session
of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions and House Foreign Af-
fairs Committees.
Reagan's carefully-prepared
remarks at a White House
Rose Garden farewell for
Peres began by noting that