'MEDIA MONITOR
Rejection By Israel
Merely One In String
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
T
he Israeli govern-
ment's December re-
jection of an in-
telligence report that the
Palestine Liberation
Organization was ready to ac-
cept a two-state solution to
the Mideast mess was the
latest in a decade-long series
of rejections of similar
reports.
This assertion was made in
a cover story in New York's
Village Voice entitled "How
Israel Suppressed the Truth
About Arafat." Free-lancer
Robert I. Friedman wrote the
piece from Jerusalem, where
he is researching a book on
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder
of the Jewish Defense League
and leader of the right-wing
Kach Party.
Friedman stated that he
had been told by a "highly
placed Israeli intelligence of-
ficer" that "top secret
reports" had been contra-
icting since 1986 "the Israeli
government's public view
that the Palestine Liberation
Organization's apparent move
toward moderation is just one
more insidious trick by a
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gang of terrorists dedicated to
the Jewish state's destruc-
tion."
Friedman charged hat
Shamir's "top aides have
tried to purge [Israel's
Military Intelligence agency]
of analysts whose conclusions
fail to support current, Israeli
government policy. The witch-
hunt has gone so far as to
have the minister of educa-
tion remove books that pre-
sent a less-than-demonic view
of the PLO from state-run
schools."
For more than a decade, ac- _
cording to Friedman, Military
Intelligence has been
documenting the evolution of
Shamir: last believer in PLO
Covenant?'
PLO thinking "as it has mov-
ed slowly away" from the
1964 Palestine National
Covenant, which calls for
Israel's destruction, and
"toward Arafat's recent
recognition of Israel during
his historic speech" in Geneva
last November.
Between 1974 and 1986,
stated Friedman, Military In-
telligence chronicled "the
emergence of a pragmatic
wing of the PLO led by
Arafat, which prodded the
organization increasingly in
the direction of restricting
itself to a state in the West
Bank and Gaza" rather than
toward the "liberation" of all
what had formerly been
Palestine."
"Ironically," stated Fried-
man, "Ariel Sharon's attempt
to destroy the PLO in
Lebanon in 1982 had more to
do with moderating the PLO
than almost any other factor.
Despairing of ever destroying
Israel through armed strug-
gle, Arafat realized that
diplomacy was his- - only
recourse if he wanted to gain
at least part of Palestine."
According to Friedman,
Israeli intelligence has con-
firmed that Arafat has kept
his pledge to cease terrorist
attacks against Israel. De-
spite the current lull in ter-
rorism, Israeli intelligence
analysts say Arafat will not
give up violence until he has
achieved a political state-
ment. But the PLO chiefs
goals, according to Military
Intelligence, are different
than in the past. "Armed
struggle is meant to ac-
celerate the political process,
not todestroy Israel," said one
intelligence source. "If Israel
wants a settlement, it must
deal with the PLO. The whole
world recognizes that.
"The problem," said this of-