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The PLO
Continued from preceding page
In private meetings, she
urged the incoming adminis-
tration to adopt a more
"open" approach to the PLO
and to push the Middle East
higher up its order of foreign
policy priorities.
She also called on Wash-
ington to "firmly welcome"
the resolution passed at the
Palestine National Council in
Algiers last month which she
interpreted, somewhat wish-
fully, perhaps, as an implicit
recognition of Israel's right to
exist.
"When people do things
that we like," she told Reagan
at an hour-long meeting in
the Oval Office, "we should
welcome it. Here is
something to build on."
It is instructing to note that
Thatcher is by means no
leading the European chorus
for recognition of the Pales-
tinian state. Indeed, it was
Britain that helped stem the
tide at a meeting of European
foreign ministers in Brussels
last week.
But it is widely believed
that unless the United States
takes an unequivocally hos-
tile attitude toward the PLO
and its declaration of an in-
dependent Palestinian state,
the Europeans will submit to
demands by Greece and Italy
for formal European recogni-
tion of the unborn state.
Recognition of the Palestin-
ian state has become a litmus
test of friendship for Israel,
and such a move would leave
a psychological scar on the
psyche of Israel, which has
always regarded the Euro-
peans as bedrock allies.
Israel has never had it easy;
but the tight corner it now oc-
cupies will pose the toughest
test yet for a nation that has
been forged in a crucible of
fire.
Israel must find a way out
of its predicament if further
tragedy is to be avoided. Its
leaders will need to draw
deeply on their own resources
to come up with creative,
credible responses that will
satisfy themselves and their
friends.
Israeli Media Gives
Mixed Reviews To
Ultra-Orthodox
The Israeli media has re-
acted strongly to the emer-
gence of the ultra-religious
parties as a decisive force in
Israeli politics.
While the daily Yediot
Ahranot has opposed an
amendment to the Law of
Return, an act which would
alienate large sections of
Diaspora Jewry, the National
Religious Party's daily, Hat-
zofeh, took the opportunity to
go on the offensive and
launch a blistering counter-
attack on American Jewry.
The paper described as "a
villainous deed" reports that
an anonymous group of
American Jews had called on
State Department officials to
cut aid to Israel.
"Such action," said the
paper, "is anti-Jewish and
runs counter to all the rules
of Jewish morality and
solidarity.
Those responsible should be
identified "so that they may
never again be able to find a
place in Jewish society in
general and Israel in par-
ticular."
The paper noted that "even
though the heads of the U.S
Council of Jewish Federations
dissociated themselves from
the shameful act, they should
not be influenced by the ac-
tions of 'slanderers' at the
State Department.
Meanwhile, the indepen-
dent Hebrew-language tab-
loid Hadashot noted that "the
massive arrival of ultra-
Orthodox, non-Zionist circles
in the secular arena cannot
remain a one-way street."
"If they have entered our
life and want to influence it,
the secular public will de-
mand that they be subjected
to the same exposure and
accountability."
Ultra-Orthodox elements
which are seeking to control
government ministries must
now "come clean" with the
secular public: "There is no
discrimination between the
blood of one and another,"
said the paper.
"Army officers need to know
that the orders they carry out
are not being issued by those
who publicly call for draft
evasion. Soldiers need to
know that they are not
suckers.
"It is their right to demand
a just distribution [of obliga-
tions] because the greatest
sacrifice is being required of
them."
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Quayle Meets
Jewish Group
New York (JTA) — Vice
President-elect Dan Quayle
conferred with a delegation of
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations in
Washington, D.C. for a get-
acquainted visit and an ex-
change of views on current
developments in the Middle
East.
Morris Abram, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents
and delegation leader, said
last week that Quayle in-
dicated skepticism about the
recent meeting of the