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MEET THE ARTIST Sunday, May 10, 1987 2:00-5:00 p.m. — Show continues through May 31st — 29080 Inkster • Southfield, MI gallery yakir (second house North of 12 Mile Road) 44 Friday, May 1, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ANALYSIS "YOUR DOORS" 352-4290 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."