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. 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