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Helps Israel
The tidal wave of democ-
racy sweeping the Commu-
nist bloc "will significantly
change the equations" in the
Middle East, according to
Amos Perlmutter, a pro-
fessor of political science and
sociology at Washington,
D.C.'s, American Univer-
sity.
In a column in the Wash-
ington Times, Perlmutter
claims the "spirit and
movement of Soviet reform
directly affect[s] the Arab-
Israeli and the Israeli-
Palestinian conflicts. Arab
leaders might take some
cautionary warning from
events that have been
nothing less than revolu-
tionary, and by the infec-
tious spirit of democracy
now affecting people long
under the sway of
totalitarianism.
"Palestinians might take
note that democracy can be
achieved through negotia-
tion and accommodation, not
through the murder of its so-
called 'collaborators.' "
And, continued
Perlmutter, both Israel and
the Palestinians must real-
ize that they are "no longer
the heated focus of super-
power competition. Arab
leaders, the PLO and the Pa-
lestinians have . . . the op-
portunity to change their
basically undemocratic and
maximalist stances."
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Tense magazine mean that
"the message emanating
from those who claim to
speak for American Jews
become even more lopsidedly
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That's the prediction of
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Progressive magazine, in The
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Tense has been a "modest,
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