I PURELY COMMENTARY
Life Goes On And On . . . Courageously
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor Emeritus
F
or the tens of thousands, mainly
from this country, who have
abandoned pilgrimages to Israel,
cancelling plane and hotel reservations,
there are uninterrupted lessons in
realism and devotion. Israeli academia
is functioning. Industry is compen-
sating. Schoolrooms are filled. The
sound of music is not silenced. Citizens
and friends walk and jog, socializing, in-
viting tourists to share in such fearless
pursuits.
Of course there is deep concern over
the rock-throwing intifada that in-
troduces violence, even if it is limited
to areas where tourists seldom travel.
The great aim is to resolve the menac-
ing situation, to restore order even
where there is the minimum of tourism
and therefore the limiting of fears
which never should have diminished
the visitors.
It is well to recall that rocks, bricks,
stones and cement are not out of the
Eretz Israel record. Chalutziut and the
basis for pioneering started with them.
When the pioneers came to build and
rebuild, the country was filled with
rocks. The pioneers were not deterred
by the most menial labors. They carried
the stones brick by brick and made the
land habitable.
The development was and is the
cultural, the scientific, the technical,
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the human factor. It began as creativi-
ty and continues with guidelines for
Jewish statehood.
Therefore the emphasis on how life
goes on. The Israel that invites tourists
makes the objective a glorious accord
for the people and all who are invited
to continue to visit.
In this fashion, there is a continui-
ty of great events that will always
glorify the Eretz Israel image. The
academic achievement will never be
faltering. There are the athletic events,
physically demonstrative. They will be
in evidence again in July when the bar
mitzva Maccabiah is held in Israel.
U.S. Committee Sports for Israel is
activating renewed interest in the
games on their 40th anniversary and
the 13th quadrennial games which
have made history in sports circles on
a global basis. Athletes from all civiliz-
ed countries have been participants.
There have been many hundreds from
this country, including scores from
Michigan cities.
The many thousands who attended
the Maccabiah Games attest to a ma-
jor element in the Sports for Israel
achievements — the significance at-
tested by the popular acclaim to
tourism as suportive for Israel. This is
the element anticipated for the ap-
proaching July Maccabiah Games. This
is one of the "life goes on" factors in the
current Israel continuity. This is one
point in the Israel program for life, an
action that does not permit progress to
be interfered with by violence. Con-
stantly, Israel's universities make
known the achievements in research,
the contributions toward human gains
and achievements.
It is much more than the research
conducted for the advancement of life's
needs. There are the aspirations for
good will among nations and the im-
provement of neighborliness. There is
always the dedication to an inspired
understanding with the non-Jewish
elements surrounding Israel. Arabs
may be witnessed as always seeking
divisiveness. From Israel's universities
there is a quest for cooperation.
Here is an example of it from the
Hebrew University. Jews in Jerusalem
are not hiding the facts, even in the in-
tifada and in the severest aspects of the
conflict with Arabs. The tracing of the
conflict has been assembled by the
Hebrew University. Its detailed account
is outlined in this recently released
public announcement:
An annotated bibliography
of books and publications in
Arabic relating to all aspects of
the Arab-Israeli conflict has just
been published by the Harry S.
Truman Research Institute for
the Advancement of Peace of the
Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
The bibliography, written in
Arabic and printed in east
Jerusalem, was compiled and
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Reliable Treatment Of Middle East Peace Prospects
I
s it too much to expect that favor-
able-to-Israel proposals in the peace
process be given emphasis on a par
with the numerous assertions that keep
stemming from PLO sources?
Such challenges appeared in an
advertisement in the New York Times.
Its heading: "Middle East Peace Pro-
spects."
The text of the ad and those who
signed it represented great significance.
The explanatory note to this adver-
tisement stated: "To assess the pro-
spects for peace in the Middle East, the
International Security Council conven-
ed a round table seminar of 14
distinguished statesmen and scholars
on Feb. 1-3, 1989, in Jerusalem, Israel."
This is the list of signers to the
statement:
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March 17, 1989
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1989
Eugene V. Rostow, con-
ference chairman, former
Undersecretary of State for
Political affairs; Charles M.
Lichenstein, former deputy U.S.
ambassador to the United Na-
tions; David Bar-Illan, director,
Jordanian Institute, Jerusalem,
Israel; Yehuda Blum, former am-
bassador of Israel to the United
Nations; Joseph Churba, presi-
dent, International Security
Council; Shmuel Katz, Israel
author and political commen-
tator; Elie Kedourie, professor of
politics, London School of
Economics; Maj. Gen. George J.
Keegan, Jr., USAF (Ret.), former
chief, U.S. Air Force intelligence;
Brig. Gen. Aharon Levran,
Israel Defense Forces (Ret.);
Joseph Luns, former secretary
general of NATO; Richard N.
Perle, former assistant secretary
of defense for international
security policy; Joseph J. Sisco,
former undersecretary of state
for political affairs; William R.
Van Cleave, director, Center for
Defense and Strategic Studies,
Southwest Missouri State
University; and Moshe Zak,
editor emeritus,
Ma'ariv
newspaper, Israel.
The declarative assertions in behalf
of the International Security Council
serve as a guideline in peace planning.
They invite rejection of the prejudicial
approaches to the most serious situa-
tion affecting the entire Middle East
and the Arab-Israel confrontation. We
are treted in this declaration to serious
diplomacy. In their statement, the emi-
nent diplomats provide serious studies
as means for attaining an accord in that
troubled area:
1. The continuing refusal of
the Arab states, except for
Egypt, to recognize the State of
Israel and negotiate peace with
it is the principal cause of the
Arab-Israel conflict. Action by
the Arab states to make peace
with Israel would help prepare
the ground for settlement of the
Palestinian issue.
2. The Palestinian issue must
be resolved by the two peoples
— one Arab, one Jewish — which
inhabit the area of the Palestine
Mandate as originally defined
by the League of Nations (i.e., the
territory now encompassing
Jordan, Israel, and the areas of
Judea and Samaria — knows as
the West Bank — and Gaza).
The establishment of
another state in Palestine, in ad-
dition to the two existing states
— Israel and Jordan — is a
prescription for instability, ir-
redentism, foreign intervention
and war, and threatens the ex-
istence of both Jordan and
Israel.
We are concerned that
negotiating with the PLO, which
has proclaimed a Palestinian
state, would support the efforts
of the PLO to establish such a
stae.
3. U.N. resolutions 242 and
338 are the cornerstone for the
solution of the Arab-Israel con-
flict. Under these resolutions,
secure and recognized boun-
daries are to be established by
the concerned states through
direct negotiations. Israel has
relinquished 91 percent of the
territories it acquired in the
1967 war. Withdrawal to the 1949
armistice lines with Jordan and
Syria would deprive Israel of
defensible borders vital to its
security and to the stability of
the region.
4. The rioting in the West
Bank and Gaza is not just a civil
disorder but an attack on the
territorial integrity and political
independence of Israel. It at-
tempts to challenge the
legitimacy of Israel's existence.
Ending the riots is a prere-
quisite
for
substantive
negotiations.
5. Israel is right to insist on
negotiating with the residents of
Judea, Samaria and Gaza. We
condemn the PLO practice of in-
timidation and assassination
aimed at preventing a dialogue
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