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Yitzhak Shamir is greeted by President Bush in more cordial times.
Local Jewish Leaders
Eye New Government
STAFF REPORT
ewish leaders in the
Detroit area expressed
a mixture of optimism
and distress when they
heard this week that Likud
leader Yitzhak Shamir will
serve another term as
Israel's prime minister.
Kenneth Knoppow, co-
chairman of the Mideast
Committee of New Jewish
Agenda, described the new
government as "a disaster
for the peace process. The
only possible lining in a dark
cloud is that it may wake up
Israelis and American Jews
to the dangers of the ex-
treme right."
Knoppow said Shamir is
"committed to peace only on
his terms, namely that the
Arabs accept the concept of a
Greater Israel (including the
West Bank and Gaza Strip)."
Because Shamir refuses to
negotiate with the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
Knoppow said he sees no
chance for peace talks in the
coming months. Palestin-
ians recognize the PLO as
their representatives, but
Shamir insists they find
other spokesmen to par-
ticipate in peace talks,
Knoppow said. "Whoever
heard of one side picking the
other side's negotiators?"
Ezekiel Laikin, executive
director of the Detroit
district of the Zionist Organ-
ization of America, dis-
agrees.
Laikin, who called
Shamir's victory "the best
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990
thing Israel could do," said
he is pleased by the Likud
leader's commitment to
Soviet Jews and to peace
talks.
Shamir has stated repeat-
edly that he supports
negotiations along the lines
of the Camp David Accords,
Laikin said. But for these
talks to proceed, Israel and
the United States "need to
arrive on a definite set of
principles," including
Israel's sovereignty over
Jerusalem and the exclusion
of the PLO in any dialogue.
While Shamir and Presi-
dent George Bush have in
the past had some sharp dis-
agreements — Bush has
been critical of Shamir's
decision to resettle Soviet
Jewish immigrants in the
occupied territories —
Laikin is optimistic
U.S.-Israel relations will be
positive.
"There has been some
momentary erosion," he
said. But American-Israel
ties are too deep and wide-
ranging for either side to let
them collapse.
Mark Schlussel, Jewish
Welfare Federation presi-
dent, said American Jewish
leaders must always support
any democratically elected
government of Israel.
"We don't live with the
ongoing pressures on a day-
to-day basis of the intifada's
massive influx of Russian
emigres and the multitude of
other problems the Israeli
leaders must address,"
Schlussel said.
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