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ANALYSIS
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DOORS"
Friday, February 20, 1987
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Reagan's Iran Policy
Reaps Bitter Harvest
VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
Special to The Jewish News
I
n a recent piece of in-depth
reportage from the Middle
East in the aftermath of
the Iran arms sales revela-
tions, Karen Elliott House,
Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign
editor of the Wall Street Jour-
nal, finds that "the bittersweet
harvest of Ronald Reagan's
misguided policy is being re-
aped here in the Middle East."
Arab leaders, convinced that
the arms sales revealed "a fun-
damental American strategic
shift from the Arabs to the Per-
sians" are "profoundly con-
fused and deeply despairing,"
she discovered on visits to
Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. The
only happy Arabs, she says, are
Libya's Quadhafi and Syria's
Assad who "can claim vindica-
tion in their abiding belief that
America is the enemy of the
Arabs."
The affair, House points out,
"has confirmed all of the Arabs'
worst-suspicions about the
American-Israeli relation-
ship." Moderates such as King
Hussein of Jordan and
President Hosni Mubarak of
Egypt, believed that while the
U.S.-Israeli partnership was
paramount, America was at
least the dominant partner,
periodically pulling the strings
on Israel. But "the lesson they
see in recent events", she
learned, "is that it's Israel pul-
ling the strings and America
doing the dancing."
That's not how they see it in
Israel where public opinion is
seriously disturbed by the un-
folding picture of the Reagan
Administration using Israel to
carry out an unsavory and
harmful policy and then seek-
ing to foist blame for its con-
ception and failure on its Is-
raeli partner. Many Israelis
feel a strong sense of betrayal
by administration officials
whom they had believed to be
sincere friends. -
It has been a bitter pill for
the Israelis who saw in Ronald
Reagan the best friend the
Jewish State ever had in the
White 'House and who
luxuriated in the unprece-
dentedly close relations they
enjoyed with the team that Re-
agan.emplaced in power. They
were prepared to—and did—
overlook the bitter fight bor-
dering on anti-Semitism which
Reagan and his aides un-
leashed to secure ratification
by Congress of the sale of the
AWACS and fighter planes to
Saudi Arabia and, sub-
sequently, the enhancement of
the fighters to give them a
bombing capability that
threatened Israel.
In the new atmosphere
of the
. .
Reagan Administration, the
traditional Arabists who staf-
fed the state department could
be bypassed by direct contact
with the military men and
ideologues who staffed the
White House and particularly
the National Security Council.
Close relationships were estab-
lished, frequently on a warm
personal level, with those who
had the president's ear and
confidence.
Israel has long enjoyed wide-
spred public support in
America despite the media
propensity to criticize almost
It has been a bitter
pill for the Israelis
who saw in Ronald
Reagan the best
friend they ever
had in the White
House.
every aspect of Israeli policy
and action. Most of the difficul-
ties. Israel encountered in
Washington in the past came
from the traditional Arabists
and the powerful lobby main-
tained by American oil inter-
ests and other corporations
doing business in the Mideast.
Congress, recognizing the
uniqueness of this tiny state
_struggling to survive in a hos-
tile sea, and deeply sympathe-
tic to its aspirations, has been
its unfailing ally. The friends
Israel newly found with the
advent of the Reagan Adminis-
tration have had oher concerns
and motivations; they were
impressed by Israel's intelli-
gence services. They accepted
the Soviet Union's hostility to
the Jewish State as all the
proof they needed of the relia-
bility of Israel's anti-
Communism.
The rapid succession of na-
tional security advisers in the
Reagan White House and
William Casey and his advis-
ers at the Central Intelligence
Agency saw Israel as • a valu-
able adjunct in their unceasing
battle to keep the Soviet Union
out of the oil-rich Middle East.
In this atmosphere, Israelis
had unprecedented access to a
White House staff that had few
qualifications for its job in the
foreign affairs area and little
or no knowledge of the com-
plexities of Middle East poli-
tics. And this boomeranged on
Israel when' the Iranian arms
scandal hit the fan.
The White House cover-up
was crude but effective in the
early stages. The blame was
placed on one man—Lt.-Col.
Oliver North, a security coun-
cil aide—and then on a
second—Admiral Jhn Poin-