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Mr. Bush Needs
To Look In Mideast Mirror

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Adot Shalom Past Presidents

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1990

One of the
frustrations for
friends of Israel
during these
days of crisis is
the sense that if
President Bush
would only apply
his response to Saddam Hus-
sein to other aspects of the
Mideast problem, he would
better appreciate Israel's
position.
For example, the president
has said that he refuses to
negotiate directly with
Saddam Hussein. This
seems eminently reasonable
in light of the fact that the
Iraqi president has acted
with callous disregard for
decency and the dignity of
human life.
Why, then, has the same
President Bush advocated
that Israel negotiate with
Palestinians representing
the Palestine Liberation
Organization, which con-
tinues, through its support
of terrorist actions, to act
with callous disregard for
decency and the dignity of
human life?
Washington's response to
the threat of aggression
against Saudi Arabia by
Iraq has been to send over
more than a hundred thou-
sand troops. This, too, is
justified, given the sword-
rattling emanating from
Baghdad, and the value of
Saudi oil to the U.S. But
when Israel's very existence
is threatened by Iraq and
Syria and other Arab states
committed to eradicating the
"Zionist entity," why does
the U.S. see the solution in
giving up territory to the Pa-
lestinians?
The same administration
that refuses to dignify Iraqi
"peace proposals" with a re-
sponse, fumes over Israel's
perceived foot-dragging in
responding to unrealistic Pa-
lestinian proposals.
And though Mr. Bush has
in the past rejected Saddam
Hussein's demand that any
withdrawal of his forces
from Kuwait be linked to an
Israeli withdrawal from the
West Bank and Gaza, the
president seemed to reverse
himself this week. In a
speech to the United
Nations, he implicitly corn-
bined the two disputes by
mentioning them in the
same sentence. Does that
mean Israel will be the pawn

in Mr. Bush's chess match
with Iraq?
One does not have to be a
supporter of Ariel Sharon to
suggest that the United
States is a victim of myopia.
Long before the 1967 war
and Israel's conquest of the
West Bank and Gaza, the
Arab states were at war with
Israel. And with the notable
exception of Egypt, they are
still at war with Israel. Not
over the rights of the Pales-
tinians, but over their belief
that there can be no Jewish
state in the Middle East.
Though we may search for
geopolitical reasons to ex-
plain this obsession with
destroying Israel, the facts
are simply that hatred of
Jews runs deep in the Arab
world.

President Bush:
Difference of priorities.

Syria still seethes with
anger over Egypt's willing-
ness to make peace with
Israel, but near the Syrian
border town of Kuneitra
stands a statue corn-
memorating an Egytian.
That Egyptian is Suleiman
Khater, the allegedly crazed
gunman who killed seven
Israeli tourists in the Sinai
in 1985. "Even a madman
can be a martyr and folk
hero if he kills Israelis," ex-
plains Mamdou Adwan, a
Syrian poet and playwright.
A critic of President Haffez
Assad's authoritarian rule,
Mr. Adwan was recently
asked if he or other
dissidents ever questioned
Syria's hostility toward
Israel or its spending 55 per-
cent of its budget on arms to
achieve "strategic parity"
with the Jewish state. "On

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