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ington, was to be neither
seen nor heard.
For all that, however,
there is, from Israel's
perspective, one important
entry on the positive side of
the ledger: the removal of
the Palestinian issue from
the top of the agenda at
precisely the moment when
it appeared to presage a se-
rious rift between Washing-
ton and Jerusalem.
The respite is likely to be
short-lived, for the Palestin-
ian question will be propell-
ed back to the top of that
agenda just as soon as Wash-
ington is able to catch its
breath again.
The harsh facts of life are
that the end of the Cold War
has almost entirely elim-
inated Israel's strategic
value to the United States.
Indeed, United States stra-
tegists may reach the con-
clusion, sooner rather than
later, that far from being a
strategic asset, Israel has
now actually become a lia-
bility.
Where once Washington
looked to Israel as a bulwark
against the expansion of
Soviet influence in the re-
gion, Moscow has now
withdrawn from the game
and Washington is finding
that even the Soviet Union's
most important former re-
gional client, Syria, is now
falling into line behind it.
It may consider that Israel
is an obstacle on the path to
U.S.- Arab cooperation and
that the Palestinian problem
— a source of continuing re-
gional tension — must be
urgently resolved. It may
also consider that Israel's
refusal to come to terms with
the Palestinians, via either
the Palestine Liberation
Organization or "authentic
Palestinian leaders" in the
occupied territories, must
quickly be broken.
George Bush is not Ronald
Reagan and the 1990s are
not the idyllic, permissive
80s. As a result of the
radically changed cir-

cumstances and per-
sonalities that now prevail,
Israel could well find itself
the loser in the new geo-
political reality.
It is likely to find that the
United States will demand a
high political price in
exchange for military
technology which Israel is
now urgently seeking. This
includes sophisticated radar
systems for detecting in-
coming missiles and the
Patriot ground- to-air bat-
teries to combat the threat of
those missiles (Israel's
Arrow anti-missile missile is
still in the developmental
stage and is thought to be at
least five years away from
deployment).
When the dust of the Gulf
crisis has settled, Washing-
ton is expected to pick up
where it left off with Israel,
but this time with a special
sense of urgency and deter :-
mination.
It will draw on the prece-
dent of its actions in the Gulf
crisis, insisting that the
rules that apply to Iraq app-
ly equally to Israel; that just
as it was inadmissible for Iraq
to seize Kuwait by force, so
too is it inadmissible for
Israel to maintain its con-
quest of the West Bank, the
Gaza Strip and the Golan
Heights.
There is, moreover, no
doubt that the application of
this principle will be warmly
endorsed not only by the
Soviet Union and the Euro-
pean. Community but by the
United Nations as a whole.
Given that Washington is
Israel's principal source of
military support, that the
European Community is its
largest single trading part-
ner, that the Soviet Union
operates the turnstiles
which could deliver a million
immigrants by the end of the
decade and that the UN has
demonstrated it is both will-
ing and able to apply sanc-
tions, Jerusalem appears to
be on course for its own date
with destiny. ❑