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ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
Metro Detroit District
and
TEMPLE ISRAEL
West Bloomfield
invite the community to hear

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Joan Peters

Author of the compelling expose
on the origins of the Arab-Jewish
Conflict over Palestine —
"From Time Immemorial"
Friday, June 17, 8:00 p.m.
Temple Israel
5725 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield

ARE THE TERRITORIES
CRITICAL TO
ISRAEL'S SECURITY?

The riots in Judea, Samaria and Gaza have caused anguished
reexamination of Israel's current policies. How can civil order
be restored? Is territorial compromise the answer?

On Tuesday, June 14, three Israeli generals--all former career
officers who have devoted much of their lives to defending the
State of Israel -- will engage in a closed-circuit TV dialogue on
this fateful issue with audiences gathered across the U.S.

You are invited to join Major General Aharon Yariv, Major
General Ori Orr and Brigadier General Ephraim Sneh in this
discussion. Your comments and questions will be welcome.

You can take part in the telecast

Tuesday, June 14 at 5:00 p.m. at the

United Hebrew Schools

21550 West Twelve Mile, Southfield

Seating is limited. To reserve your place, please call

Gerald Cook at (313) 357-2766

Sponsored by the American Jewish Congress
via the CJii` Satellite Network
Refreshments and further discussion will follow the telecast.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988

Diplomacy

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tee, Shultz pledged that the
United States would not
abandon the peace initiative.
He reminded members of
the committee that President
Reagan was still a good actor
who liked to end his perfor-
mances on a high note: "He
may yet come out with a
forceful move as the final act
in the drama unfolds," he told
puzzled Israeli legislators.
For all the routine pomp
that accompanies a visit by a
high United States official,
there was none of the excite-
ment, the sense of expecta-
tion, that normally accom-
panies the visit of a secretary
of state.
The Shultz initiative,
unveiled in February, had
come too late. It was, as
Defense Minister Rabin noted
last week, simply unrealistic
to expect that decades of
hostility could be dissipated
in four or five months.
True, Shultz cannot have
entertained any serious hope
of finding the chink in
Shamir's armor that would
have propelled the Israeli
leader to the negotiating
table; true, too, he cannot
reasonably hope that a settle-
ment will be achieved before
his term runs out.
Equally, Shultz is determin-
ed to keep the process alive, to
maintain the momentum and
lay the groundwork so that he
can present his successor
with a going concern.
But there was a far more
compelling and urgent reason
for this week's mission: a real
and present danger that could
have undone — may yet undo
— even the modest gains that
have been made so far and
cause the entire enterprise to
be aborted.
The real purpose of the
latest Shultz swing, according
to Middle East analysts, was
to bolster the moderate Arab
world and attempt to prevent
the initiative from passing in-
to the hands of the radicals,
led by Syria, who have never
hidden their preference for a
"military option" over a
diplomatic process.
Six months after the start
of the Palestinian uprising in
the territories, the Western-
inclined Arab world has no
diplomatic gains to show for
its efforts and were expected
to come under intense
pressure when the Arab
leaders assembled in Algiers
this week for an Arab League
summit.
Moreover, the credibility of
the "military option" has
been manifestly enhanced by
the recent acquisition by a
number of Arab states of
sophisticated ground-to-
ground missiles, which are
now capable of piercing

Israel's defenses and deliver-
ing chemically-tipped war-
heads onto Israeli population
centers.
At the same time, the
moderate states also fear that
the message of radicalism
and fundamentalism, now
flowing freely out of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, will
seep across their borders, in-
flame their populations and
threaten their own, tenuous
regimes.
Middle East analysts have
recently been expressing anx-
iety, still not dispelled, that
some of the moderate Arab

George Shultz: Slim pickings?

leaders may despair of Wash-
ington's ability to lean on
Israel and persuade it to come
up with a formula for defus-
ing the tensions.
In addition, there have been
persistent reports that King
Hussein of Jordan, whose
subjects include a restive
Palestinian majority, is
preparing to throw in his lot
with the radicals as a means
of protecting his throne.
He has, according to
analysts, already drafted a
speech to be delivered after
the Algiers summit renounc-
ing any claims to the ter-
ritories and withdrawing
from the U.S.-sponsored peace
process.
He would seal the borders
between his kingdom and the
West Bank, thereby cutting
off West Bank inhabitants
from their relatives on the
East Bank and closing a
lucrative export market to
West Bank farmers. He would
stop payment to civil ser-
vants, halt financial assis-
tance to businessmen and
deny mortgages to young
couples, the traditional
means he has employed to
win and hold the allegiance of
West Bank Palestinians.
The Jordanian king is a
central element in the United
States peace concept, and
such a development would in-
stantly scuttle the Shultz in-
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