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Born in Afghanistan in 1926, Aharon Bezalel is an artist and teacher at the
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especially in Israel, the United States and Canada. In Michigan alone; he has
built two monuments located in East Lansing. His works are also found in
private collections locally and nationwide.
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Friday, May 1, 1987
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ANALYSIS
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PLO Unity
Continued from preceding page
Palestinian refugee camps, it
was unable to deal a decisive
blow against the PLO forces.
This failure proved to be a
compelling factor in Presi-
dent Assad's reluctant deci-
sion to send his army into the
Lebanese capital.
The Syrian leader aspires
to pacify Lebanon through
local proxies, and a powerful
PLO force, perhaps the single
most powerful force in the
country, would defeat his pur-
pose unless he was able to
exercise a significant measure
of control over it.
President Assad, say the
Israeli analysts, was also
unsettled by the prospect of
the rejectionists and Arafat
loyalists acting independent-
ly to translate their military
cooperation into a political
rapprochement. Hence his
decision to come to terms
with Arafat.
Most Israeli observers are
awed by Arafat's incom-
parable flair for political
strategy and his mastery of
the art of physical survival.
Some see his latest turn as
yet another tactic to buy
time, mend fences and pre-
pare for a fresh initiative and
another flurry of activity.
His first priority, they say,
will be to distance himself
from his old alliance with
Jordan and dispel any linger-
ing notions that King Hus-
sein has a mandate to speak
for the Palestinians.
"He is striving now to
unify the ranks of the PLO, to
strengthen his position and
then to call for a fresh Arab
summit to reassert the right
of the PLO as the sole
legitimate representative of
the Palestinian people," says
Dr Avraham Sela, a Middle
East specialist at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
Arafat, he says, also
recognizes that a strong,
united PLO is far more
valuable than a weak and
divided organization, and
that when he is once again
ready to entertain the over-
tures of the moderate states—
Jordan, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia—he will be able to
command a high political
price for his favours.
"I do not regard the Algiers
meeting as the end of the
game," he said, "but rather
the beginning of a new
phase."
In the meantime, though,
Sela believes that by embrac-
ing the rejectionists, Arafat
has effectively killed the Mid-
dle East peace process—at
least until after the next U.S.
presidential election.
"Whatever small chance
there may have been for prog-
ress in peace-making has now
been reduced to zero," he says.
"Arafat cannot join with the
rejectionists, who object to
every formula for a diplo-
matic solution, and still talk
seriously about peace."
"It makes sense for him to
use this time to reunify the
PLO and attempt to secure a
better bargaining position if
the talks get going again."
Israel, meanwhile, was
given an early warning of
Arafat's intentions even
before the Algiers summit
opened last Monday.
The previous day, a squad
of three armed Palestinian
fighters, members of Arafat's
own Fatah faction, penetrated
the heavily defended Israeli-
Lebanese border for the first
time in seven years with the
apparent intention of seizing
Israeli hostages and giving
dramatic effect to Mr Ara-
fat's tactical switch.
The three were killed by an
Israeli patrol, but not before
they themselves had killed
two Israeli soldiers.
It was a timely message
and, perhaps, a taste of
things to come. ❑
Israel Rejects
Norway Request
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
has rejected a request by
Norway to clarify for the In-
ternational Atomic Energy
Agency the use it made of
two consignments of heavy
water it received from Nor-
way in 1959 and 1970. Heavy
water contains more than the
usual proportion of heavy
isotopes, such as deuterium,
and is an important ingre-
dient in the manufacture of
nuclear weapons.
Israel's response to the
Norwegian request was con-
veyed by Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres to Prime
Minister Gro Harlem Brundt-
land of Norway when they
met at the conference of the
Socialist International in
Rome last week.
Envoy's Fate
Washington (JTA) — More
than 100 members of the
House have signed a letter
urging Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev to free Raoul Wal-
lenberg, the Swedish dip-
lomat who saved thousands of
Hungarian Jews from the
Nazis during World War II.
The letter, signed by 113
Congressmen, urged Gor-
bachev to release Wallenberg,
who was arrested by the Red
Army outside Budapest in
January 1945, or provide a
"full, complete and public ac-
counting of his fate."