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JANUARY 1, 1988 / 11 TEVET 5748

Benign Occupation
Brings Bitter Results

HELEN DAVIS

Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem — When Israel con-
quered the West Bank from Jordan
and the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the
1967 Six-Day War, it intended to stay
for just long enough to meet its Arab
neighbors at the negotiating table
and trade the territories back for
peace. That was the theory.
The theory was never translated
into practice. Twenty years later,
Israeli leaders—at least those who are
willing to consider such an
accommodation—are still waiting for
telephone calls from the Arab capitals
that will enable them to set a meeting

and a date for evacuating the
territories.
For many, the dream — the great
promise of the Six-Day War — has
gone sour.
True, a peace treaty has been
signed with Egypt, but Cairo had no
wish to retrieve the Gaza Strip and its
650,000 inhabitants, whom it had ad-
ministered from 1948 but never at-
tempted to incorporate permanently
into its borders.
True, too, King Hussein of Jordan
has reached an accord with Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon. Peres on the
nature of a peace conference, but the
procedural obstacles (on both the

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Famine, Resettlement
Threaten Ethiopians

ANDREW SILOW CARROLL

KOSHER
KOPS

Mordechai Wolmark likes what
he sees in Detroit. But there
is always some room for
improvement.

New York (JTA) — A second
famine in three years is threatening
to devastate Ethiopia, and with it the
10,000-20,000 Jews living primarily
in the country's Gondar region.
As many at 7.3 million of
Ethiopia's estimated 45 million peo-
ple may again face starvation, accor-
ding to George Kassis, UNICEF desk
officer for Ethiopia.
Faced with a crop-withering
drought, civil war and an agricultural
economy that has yet to recover from
the famine of 1984-1985, the Ethio-
pian government has appealed for
donations of 1.4 million tons of food.
Last week, members of the Inter-
faith Hunger Appeal, a relief coali-

A Taste
Of New York
In Young
Detroit

tion that includes the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
(JDC), returned from a week-long
fact-finding tour of Ethiopia. "There
is an impending crisis, and the short-
fall of one million tons of food is at
least accurate," said Monsignor
Robert Coll, executive director of the
organization, at a news conference.
Food shortages have particularly
affected the northern regions of
Eritrea and Tigre, but parts of Gon-
dar and other regions are not immune
to drought or mass migrations, Coll
reported.
The Jews of Gondar will face food
shortages despite what Aryeh
Cooperstock, director of the JDC's In-
ternational Development Program,
said was "the best crop there in

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