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olumnists and edito-
rial writers often
have to be restrained
from writing about the Mid-
dle East, so eager are they to
tell the world what to do
about its most volatile re-
gion. Now that there's a
possible regional peace con-
ference, things have gotten
out of hand.
Perhaps the most cogent,
brief — and witty — com-
ment on the potential talks
came from Rob Rogers, edi-
torial cartoonist at the Pitt-
sburgh Press. Mr. Rogers
drew a grizzled old codger
saying to a crony in a diner,
"The way I see it . . . If
Warren Beatty can settle
down, there's hope for peace
in the Middle East."
Other comments were less
pregnant with optimism.
The Washington Post com-
mented that the nascent
peace process imposed a
"heavy burden" on Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir: "On the politi-
cal level, Mr. Shamir is
caught between the Ameri-
can pressure to say yes and
his right-wing annexationist
Likud colleagues' insistence
on saying no. On a deeper
level, he is caught between
memory and responsibility
— the memory of Jewish
peril, the responsibility to
seize a moment in history
that could help deflect an-
other peril."
The New York Times sug-
gested that Israel's con-
fidence in the emerging pro-
cess could be "furthered if
Israel were assured that the
ceremonial international
conference would be followed
immediately, even within a
day, by direct negotiations
with the several Arab par-
ties."
But the Wall Street Jour-
nal was highly circumspect.
"In the absence of a clear
sense" of Secretary of State
James Baker's strategy, the
paper worried that "it is
easy to imagine untoward
outcomes, such as a repeat of
the Iraq endgame of a facile
declaration of victory and
then withdrawal. If Mr.
Baker thinks mere words
further peace, another bad
endgame could result . . ."
Among columnists,
Rowland Evans and Robert
C
Arthur J. Magida is senior
writer for the Baltimore Jew-
ish Times.
Novak were most suspicious
of backroom dealings bet-
ween Israel and the United
States, most despairing
about what this may portend
for Palestinians.
By "forcing" Secretary
Baker to give Israel a veto
over Palestinian representa-
tion at a conference, Prime
Minister Shamir may assure
they get "second-rate" rep-
resentation.
It may also mean that
Syria will be their patron at
the negotiating table. If so,
Syria and Israel "may ar-
bitrarily decide that the con-
tinued neutralization of Pa-
lestinians struggling to sur-
vive on the West Bank may
be the safest route to a
future without war between
themselves."
In the Philadelphia In-
quirer, op-ed writer Marcia
Drezon-Tepler claimed that
insisting that Israel's set-
tlements are a barrier to
peace is "folly."
"Israel," she wrote, "has
shown a willingness to bend
on this issue in the past,
given room to maneuver. So,
for now, the most effective
strategy for Baker to follow
on Israel's settlements is
simply to ignore them."
But syndicated columnist
Georgie Anne Geyer insisted
that "the settlement situa-
tion is so far gone, so cynical
in its manipulation of
American policy and those
behind it so intent upon total
control of all of the ter-
ritories that policy-makers
should start by understan-
ding that the Shamir
government is not going to
change, period."
Chutzpah Of
Last Resort
Chutzpah is no stranger to
Alan Dershowitz, the Har-
vard law school professor
and lawyer of last resort who
has defended such clients as
Claus von Bulow and
Jonathan Pollard. Mr. Der-
showitz takes such pride in
his brashness that he entitl-
ed his latest book, Chutzpah,
after the quality for which
he is most famous.
But now Henry Siegman,
executive director of the
American Jewish Congress,
is taking Mr. Dershowitz to
a bet din, an Orthodox re-
ligious court, for an alleged
excess of nerviness.
Mr. Siegman charges
that he is libeled by
Chutzpah's claims that his
"sycophancy" during a