FOR
STARS
ONLY.
shores of the Mediterranean
in North Africa, through
Soviet Central Asia and into
China.
This will not be a united
power bloc like the Warsaw
Pact, but it will be no less of
a threat. "As we witness the
death throes of Commu-
nism," said McCauley,
"there is no doubt that the
rising power at the end of
the 20th century is funda-
mentalist Islam."
Once again, Israel is
caught in the eye of the
storm, and in this case the
Jewish state is the author of
its own misfortune. With
fundamentalism rising
throughout the occupied ter-
ritories, Israeli leaders
e xtraordinarily
miscalculated when they
opted to encourage a "return
to religion" among Gaza
Strip Palestinians.
Israeli leaders abetted
fundamentalism in Gaza by
naively hoping that religion
would rebuff Palestinian na-
tionalism and neutralize the
secular PLO. Islamic edu-
cation was advocated and
permission given to import
funds to build dozens of
mosques.
Gaza fundamentalists now
proudly claim, with some
justification, that they lit
the fuse that ignited the in-
tifada in December, 1987.
Young nationalists in the
PLO may challenge that
claim, but what cannot be
disputed is that it is from the
minarets and pulpits of
Gaza's mosques that the
message of holy war against
the Jews has come over the
past 30 months.
Since the 1979 peace trea-
ty between Egypt and Israel,
the West's conventional
wisdom has been that the
Arab world was slowly mov-
ing toward accepting Israel.
Western leaders asked Israel
to be willing to compromise
over territorial demands,
while they nudged the Arab
world in the desired direc-
tion. This remains the
guiding policy of the Bush
administration.
A triumphal Islam will
destroy that dream. It will
compel the West to look to
its own security, and it will
force Israel back to first
principles: How to survive in
an environment that grows
increasingly hostile to its
very existence.
❑
Last Ethiopian Jews May
Head For Israel This Year
DAVID LANDAU
Special to The Jewish News
V
irtually all of the re-
maining 14,000 Jews
in Ethiopia will make
aliyah over the coming year,
Reuven Merhav, the director
general of the Foreign Min-
istry said recently.
His remarks were publish-
ed in the Jerusalem Post and
at least two Hebrew dailies.
Merhav said the Ethiopian
aliyah was being facilitated
as part of a government-to-
government agreement on
family reunification bet-
ween Israel and Ethiopia, in
the wake of the re- estab-
lishment of full diplomatic
relations between the two
states last November.
Merhav's statements trig-
gered intense agitation and
expectation among the Ethi-
opian community in Israel,
according to its leaders.
But his disclosure was
strongly criticized by Ab-
sorption Minister Yitzhak
Peretz, who said publicizing
immigration details was
potentially damaging to
ongoing efforts.
Peretz also criticized Jew-
ish Agency officials for
statements to the press that
more than a million Soviet
Jews have applied to Israel
over the past 18 months for
invitations, the first step in
the aliyah process.
Peretz said that the report
was harmful, rash and inac-
curate because the figure in-
cludes many cases of repeat
applications and because
applying does not necessari-
ly reflect a decision on the
part of the applicants to
emigrate.
"It reflects the
psychological situation of
Soviet Jews," rather than a
realistic aggregate of would-
be olim, Peretz explained.
Many Soviet Jews want
aliyah papers "as an in-
surance policy," given the
uncertain conditions
prevailing in the USSR.
"That doesn't mean they're
all coming on aliyah
tomorrow," he said.
❑
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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