S S DIVORCE is the last step. rity Council post when the scandal first became public knowledge, had told him on Nov. 23 that the Israelis had originated the idea of over- charging the Iranians for the arms and diverting the profits to the contras. North, according to one ver- sion of the Meese testimony, was said to have identified David Kimche, former director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, as the offi- cial who proposed that course of action but Justice Depart- ment attorneys and FBI inves- tigators have not been able to confirm that the Israeli had played any such role. Kimche himself denied it flatly. He said he had met North only twice and on neither occasion had aid to the contras been discussed. In a statement on Israeli Radio, Kimche said if North had at- tributed the contra aid plan to him, he was "an unmitigated liar." But while reporting. that "some former colleagues of North have questioned his veracity," the Los Angeles Times asserted that "if support is developed for his (North's) claim, it would suggest that Is- rael played a role in the contra connection, which Israeli offi- cials have denied knowing anything about." With the fund-skimming scheme attributed to one Is- raeli, the resumption of U.S. arms sales to Iran in 1986 is blamed on the persuasiveness of another Israeli official. Amiram Nir, who was Prime Minister Shimon Peres' ad- viser on terrorism and whom Peres put in charge of the Ira- nian dealings, is being fingered by Administration sources as the man responsible for the resumption of arms shipments to Iran after President Reagan had ordered them halted in December 1985. Nir, according to informa- tion volunteered by Adminis- tration officials, came to Wash- ington shortly after Reagan ordered the ban and told CIA director William J. Casey that resumption of arms shipments to Iran would lead to the fre- eing of the American hostages held in Lebanon. "Government officials who have reviewed the arms sales to Iran," the New York Times reported, "said this argument convinced President Reagan to resume arms shipments." The shipments had been sus- pended, the officials said, "more because of unhappiness with the logistics provided by the Israelis than because of any deep-seated opposition to the idea." In fact, soon after the President signed an order authorizing direct U.S. par- ticipation in the arms ship- ments, bypassing Israeli mid- dlemen. It is to defeat the continuing effort to make Israel the scapegoat for a major White House and intelligence corn- munity blunder that the Is- raeli government must act speedily to be able to coun- teract this campaign with the documented findings of its own penetrating investigation. Statements and denials alone won't do. To be effective, the Israeli response to the in- neundos and charges here must be solidly based on the findings of a commission of in- quiry with the credibility, scope and authority given to the Kahan commission when it examined Israeli responsibil- ity for the Phalangist mas- sacres in the Beirut Palesti- nian refugee camps during the campaign in Lebanon. The re- sults of that inquiry were un- hesitatingly accepted by the world. That commission would have to examine and reveal many of the arcane connec- tions between Israeli arms merchants on the one hand, and the shadowy figures haunting the international arms market who had key roles in the transactions. This may hurt Israel eco- nomically since the arms in- dustry, which is Israel's biggest, producing a quarter of its income from exports, th- rives in a clandestine atmos- phere and suffers from expo- sure to the light. But it is a result that Israel will have to accept. The arms industry is the backbone of the Israeli indus- trial complex, the framework on which practically all its techological activities depend. No commission report can alter this; Israel, for the foreseeable future, must remain heavily armed. To survive, it must make and export the tools of war. That is the grim, irrever- sible reality. WA Releases Fiscal Report New York — United Israel Appeal, the principal benefici- ary of national UJA cam- paigns, issued its annual re- port for fiscal year April 1, 1985 - March 31, 1986. During this period, UIA allocated $311,302,000 to the Jewish Agency for program services in Israel, including immigration and absorption, Project Re- newal, housing, rural settle- ment, education, Youth Aliyah and other social needs. In addi- tion, UIA expended $14,277,000 for debt service, increasing total support to nearly $326 million for the fis- cal year. The total budget was approved by the Jewish Agency Assembly at $381 mil- lion. 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