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assistance and $1.2 billion in
economic assistance from the
United States each year.
• The supply of defense
systems by Israel to the
United States has grown
substantially in the last five
years.
• The U.S.-Israel free trade
agreement and regular
economic consultations have
helped both countries.
• The United States turned
around "the dangerous
economic situation that ex-
isted in Israel during the ear-
ly 1980s" after the Lebanon
War.
These developments, she
said, serve as a backdrop to
the U.S. position for the last
20 years on the Arab-Israeli
conflict: a peace settlement
based on United Nations
Resolutions 242 and 338,
direct negotiations between
the parties and development
of legitimate rights of the
Palestinians.
Although the anti-Israel
rhetoric has been the same
the past 20 years, Scobey
believes other factors have
changed since the 1967 Arab
conference in Khartoum said
of Israel: "No negotiations, no
peace, no recognition."
She cited Egypt's recogni-
tion of Israel and the gradual
return of relations between
Egypt and other Arab coun-
tries after that event; the de
facto relationship of Israel
and Jordan; Israel Finance
Minister Shimon Peres' open
talks with King Hassan of
Morocco in 1986; and Syria's
observance of the Lebanese
ceasefire arrangements with
Israel.
The Arab summit in Am-
man, Jordan, in 1987 may
have contributed to the start
of the intifada because the
Arabs virtually ignored Israel
to deal with the Iran-Iraq
War, she said. Scobey also
sees PLO leader Yassir
Arafat's statement accepting
Israel's right to exist, Resolu-
tions 242 and 338, and renun-
ciation of terrorism as
positive steps forward from
the situation 20 years ago.
Israel's international image
has been tarnished by the in-
tifada, Scobey said. No one
thought the uprising would
last as long as it has, and "to
a certain extent it has let the
genie (of Palestinian na-
tionalism in the territories)
out of the bottle. I don't think
it is going to easily be put
back.
"It was an indigenous local
event, in spite of PLO efforts
to try to take credit for it," she
said.
Scobey believes 95 percent
of the Palestinians look to the
PLO as their political leader.
"Local Palestinians (in the
territories) don't care who
won the 1967 war," Scobey
said. "For them, they've been
living under occupation all
their lives. Israel faces a long-
term problem that it can't
solve militarily. Time no
longer works in Israel's favor."
Scobey sees the U.S. role in
the peace process as "sitting,
listening and waiting . . . The
U.S. can't force anyone in the
region to make concessions.
We can't steamroll our way
through the Middle East and
impose peace. It's not for us to
lead the way."
She is confident, however,
that strong U.S. support for
Israel and changes in the
Arab world will bring Israel
and its adversaries to the
peace table.
Scobey's visit to Detroit
marked her return to
Michigan. A native of Ten-
nessee, she has relatives in
Flint and joined the State
Department in 1981 after do-
ing doctoral studies at the
University of Michigan. She
recently completed Arabic
language studies and will
soon be assigned to the U.S.
consulate in Jersualem.
1,000 Attend
Moscow Service
Tel Aviv (JTA) A memorial
service in Moscow for the fam-
ed Yiddish actor Solomon
Mikhoels drew at least 1,000
people, as celebrations sur-
rounding the inauguration of
the new Jewish Cultural
Center in Moscow, named in
Mikhoels' honor continued.
Mikhoels, a star of the pre-
war, Soviet government-
sponsored Yiddish State
Theater, was murdered in
1948 at the direct orders of
Stalin.
Guests of honor were his
daughter, Natalya, and his
granddaughter, Viktoria, who
were invited by the Soviet
authorities to attend the ser-
vice. The two had immigrated
to Israel in 1973.
The memorial included a
film clip of Mikhoels and his
Yiddish troupe performing a
musical based an .a Sholom
Aleichem story.
There was also a brief clip
of Mikhoels in one of his most
famous roles, King Lear.
The memorial was spon-
sored by the Jewish Cultural
Association, an independent
group of artists, and the
Shalom Theater, an offshoot
of the old Yiddish State
Theater.
The Shalom Theater is link-
ed to the Soviet Anti-Zionist
Committee, whose chairman,
Gen. David Dragunsky, at-
tended the memorial.