1UP FRONT YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T•Shirt! Greasepaint Continued from preceding page bright side. I met all my neighbors — as they scrambled into the building's bomb shelter. Day 33 Before I left to entertain children at a Tel Aviv hospital, I stopped at a con- venience store. Shopping at a 7-11 here is no different than in the United States. The guy behind the counter here doesn't speak English either. In full clown makeup, I hailed a taxi. As the driver pulled away from the curb, he pulled over the curb. I'm thinking I was safer during the missile attack. The driver kept looking over his shoulder at me, like I might be part of some new terrorist ploy — a killer clown commando squad. When I arrived at the hospital, the children went absolutely wild. I was a celebrity. I went from bed to bed, pausing to clown around with children and their parents. I made each child one or two balloon animals before I moved to the next room. They even allowed me to go into the recovery room to see children just recently out of surgery. Before I left, I saw every sick and injured child in the place. But one little boy started to cry after about five minutes of watching me. "My little boy is crying," his mother said, "because he says that he wants to go to America to live with the clowns." That alone made the trip worthwhile. Day 38 After a few more air raids and episodes of entertaining children, today is my last day in Israel. My adventure is over. The people of Israel seem like no others I've met. When you spend your whole life under threat of war, I guess you develop a special zest for life — since it can end so suddenly. I wish I were staying. I'm so proud to be a Jew. Not bad for a clown. ❑ OPINION Non-Negotiable Continued from Page 7 Subscribe Today To The Jewish News And Receive A T-Shirt With Our Compliments! From the West Bank to West Bloomfield — and all points in between — The Jewish News covers your world. 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Allow four weeks for delivery. 12 ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP (Circle One) 1 year: '29 2 years: '52 Out of State: '37 enclosed $ (Circle One) ADULT EX. LG. ADULT LARGE, ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1991 an Israel dependent upon Arab good will is soon to be no Israel at all. An Israel only 10 miles across, an Israel sur- rounded by ancient enemies, an Israel unable to protect itself in the worst-case scenarios that so frequently arise in the Middle East, is not a defendable Israel. An undefendable Israel is history. The Arabs know this. We should learn it. Middle East peace in- itiatives like those now ban- died about are by no means new. The Israelis have negotiated with their Arab neighbors many times in the past. In the most successful and most promising of such negotiations, Prime Minister Begin of Israel and Prime Minister Sadat of Egypt reached a historic accord at Camp David; and because they did, Sadat was assassinated in his own homeland by his own fellow Arabs. The Israelis have given back huge expanses of land legitimately taken by de- feating aggressors in combat, aggressors that attacked them on the holiest day of the Jewish year. Israel's largesse did not produce peace. Israel has now actually declined to launch a ( counterattack when fired upon by an Arab nation with whom it is not even at war. The scope of Israel's restraint is apparent when we consider how we ourselves would res- pond if Saddam Hussein had lobbed missiles into Baltimore and Philadelphia. But Israel's remarkable restraint has not produced security within its own borders or good will outside them. There can be no world peace without regional peace, and there can be no regional peace for an Israel strategically disadvantaged at the insistence of its enemies and exposed to at- tack by ill-advised negotia- tions with armed, hostile neighbors whose tactical posi- tion and geographic boun- daries remain the same while Israel's are diminished. What good does it do, asked John Milton more than 300 years ago, to defend against your enemy at one gate, if you let him in at another? What good does it do, ask the Israelis, to defend yourself against the multiple onslaughts of multiple ag- gressors, if you give them at the bargaining table what they could not get or keep at war? ❑ N