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Subscriptions: 1 year - $21 — 2 years - S39 — Out of State - $23 — Foreign - $35 CANDLELIGHTING AT 6:19 P.M. VOL. XC, NO. 9 The Next 25 Months . The transition of Israeli prime ministers has been quiet and peaceful, far more peaceful than was ever imagined when it was first arranged over two years ago. Then, cynics scoffed that Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres would bicker incessantly and that the Labor-Likud coalition government would barely survive one year, let alone the 25 months of its existence to date. Indeed, this government-built-for-two had all the makings of a neutered, bland, caretaker government, one that would be stymied in its need to please all factions. But as prime minister, Peres managed to cut Israel's annual inflation rate from 400 percent to its current 15 percent and to extricate Israel's military from the morass of southern Lebanon. He achieved no breakthroughs in an Israel-Arab settlement. But the dialogue he began with one Arab leader — King Hassan of Morocco — ended the dearth of high-level contacts between Jews and Arabs that had marked Mideast relations for almost six years. This is not to say, of course, that peace is nigh. Far from it. But at least an Israeli and an Arab leader managed to sit in the same room together. Yitzhak Shamir has the reputation of being a hardliner. But so did Menachem Begin, who had the courage to sign the first peace treaty between Israel and one of its former enemies. While Shamir now says that he will not relinquish an inch of the West Bank, the Golan Heights or the Gaza Strip, he seems to be aiming toward some type of permanent, de facto arrangement with his Arab neighbor. That, at least, is his stand for now. But as Romanian President Nicolae Ceausecu recently told someone who asked his prognosis of Shamir's peace efforts, "Without doubt, he will continue — and you will see, he will surprise you." After the killings, terrors and diplomatic stalemates of the last few years, the Mideast is very much in need of a pleasant surprise. One hopes that Mr. Ceausecu's instincts about Shamir are corre.A. Dung Gate Lesson Last week's terrorist attack outside the Old City walls in Jerusalem served again to strip the facade of peace from the "moderate" Palestine Liberation Organization and its "hard-line" splinter groups. What difference do the families of the dead and wounded see in the fragmented PLO groups as they all scramble to tell the world of their prowess in maiming the innocent? The U.S. has made no accommodation with terrorists, to the sorrow of U.S. captives in Lebanon. Caving in, however, would make us all captives. The French, the Greeks, and Italians have paid dearly for their secret "deals" with the PLO. But the ones who refuse to heed the lesson of terrorism are the terrorists themselves. Terrorism may be an outlet for real and imagined injustices. It certainly wreaks indiscriminate sorrow and widespread fear. But its main accomplishment in the Middle East has been to prevent a peaceful settlement of Arab-Israeli issues. No other single factor has done more to harden positions for both sides. OP-ED Soft-Spoken Arab Mayor's Hard-Line PLO Approach ERIC ROZEMAN I f there was a good word to say about Israel, Nazareth Mayor and Knesset Member Tawfik Zayyad could not find it during a re- cent appearance at the National Press Club. Zayyad, a leader of Is- rael's predominantly Arab Rakah (Communist) Party, has been in the Israeli parliament since 1977, elected most recently on the list of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality — a combination of Rakah, the "Black Panther" faction formed in the early 1970's by some disaf- fected Sephardi Jews, and other fringe groups. Zayyad called the Palestine Lib- eration Organization (PLO) "the only address" for dealing with Pales- tinian Arabs. He played down inter- nal differences between the some- times warring factions of the PLO and insisted that unity would be re- stored. The mayor °ridiculed Shimon Peres' offer — made as prime minis- ter — to negotiate with non-PLO moderate Palestinians. He labeled such people "collaborators, quislings and pro-Hussein clients." Zayyad, who heads Israel's largest Arab city, also derided in- coming Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's emphasis on following the Camp David autonomy provisions for residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We say there is no difference between autonomy and anatomy; they both deal with dead bodies." According to the mayor, autonomy "means continuation of occupation under another name . .-. The Arab Palestinian people want a state of their own." He dismissed the idea that Jor- Eric Rozeman is editor of "Near East Report." Zayyad participated in a Detroit press conference last week sponsored by Rep. John Conyers. dan, comprising three-quarters of the original Palestine Mandate, could be a Palestinian Arab state if ruled by the majority and not by King Hussein's minority Hashemite dynasty. Playing fast and loose with demography and geography, Zayyad declared that "Jordan is for the Jor- danians, Israel for the Israelis and Palestine for the Palestinians." That tantalizing formulation raises a number of questions which the mayor would not want to ad- dress, including: Who are the Jorda- He labeled non-PLO moderates as "collaborators, quislings and pro-Hussein clients." nians and on what do they base their claim to part of Palestine if they are not Palestinian Arabs? And, is Zayyad implying that by Palestine he means only the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Has the PLO Covenant been secretly amended to delete Jordan and Israel? Interest- ingly, two days before Zayyad spoke in Washington, PLO "political direc- tor" Farouk Kaddoumi told an inter- viewer in London: We know that the Jordanian people are our people. We are one and the same people . . ." Zayyad stressed that Israel's 700,000 Arab citizens — whom he also identified as Palestinians — would not settle in a West Bank and Gaza state, should one be created. We are citizens of Israel, living in our own homes and villages. That's our homeland . . . We are not going to move." However, Zayyad did not believe that Israeli Arabs should serve in the Israel Defense Forces, which he termed an aggressive army." Zayyad said that Israel does not call Arabs to service now because "the Continued on. Page 40