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favorable ratings respective-
ly.
Mr. Shamir has the
highest "very favorable"
rating (25 percent).
In the latest Harris poll of
American public opinion
(conducted in August, before
the President's press con-
ference in which he opposed
loan guarantees), Israel was
viewed as a close ally or
friend by a 79 percent-16
percent majority of Ameri-
cans. By contrast, re-
spondents were hostile to
Syria by a 53 percent-32 per-
cent margin, while a 74
percent-15 percent majority
held negative views toward
the PLO. On the basic sym-
pathy question, 53 percent
sympathized more with
Israel than the Palestinians,
the second-highest level of
support over the past 17
years of Harris polls.
The general -public re-
mains almost evenly divided
on questions regarding the
territories. No evidence ex-
ists in the poll that senti-
ment has turned against
Israel or that Americans
believe Israel should
withdraw completely from
the territories. When asked
if Israel should give up the
West Bank, with the excep-
tion of some Israeli military
outposts, 44 percent oppose
the idea and 43 percent sup-
port it. Similarly, 44 percent
oppose Israel giving up the
Golan Heights to Syria
while 42 percent favor the
option.
The question of Jerusalem
is less divisive, however,
with a 55 percent-35 percent
majority opposing Israel giv-
ing up some control of the
Old City.
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Weinberger Anti-Israel,
Oliver North Charges
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Lt. Col. Oliver North, the
former National Security
Council staffer who was at
the core of the Iran-Contra
scandal, says that the State
Department has an anti-
Israel bias and that Caspar
Weinberger, the former Sec-
retary of Defense, was the
most outspoken critic of
Israel in the Reagan ad-
ministration.
In his new book, Under
Fire, written with William
Novak and due out this
week, Mr. North says that
"this bias did not seem to be
shared by President Reagan
or Vice President Bush, but
. . . (Mr.) Weinberger seemed
to go out of his way to oppose
Israel on any issue and to
blame the Israelis for every
problem in the Middle East.
"In our planning for
counterterrorist operations,
he apparently feared that if
we went after Palestinian
terrorists, we would offend
and alienate Arab govern-
ments — particularly if we
acted in cooperation with the
Israelis."
Mr. North adds that the
Weinberger "anti-Israel tilt
was an underlying current
in almost every Mideast
issue. Some people explained
it by pointing to his years
with the Bechtel Corpora-
tion, • the San Francisco en-
gineering firm with contacts
in many Arab countries.
Others believed it was more
complicated, and had to do
with his sensitivity about
his own Jewish ancestry."
As for the State Depart-
ment bias, Mr. North asserts
that "nobody ever said so
aloud, but it seemed to me
that many officials at State
were automatically opposed
to whatever it was the
Israelis favored.". He as-
cribes this to "a pro-Arab tilt
at State" and "an ingrained
streak of anti-Semitism in
our government." ❑
Gary Rosenblatt
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much as it will hurt, I believe
it is the right thing to do. I
also believe that the Jewish
homeland will survive — that
it must — and that there will
someday be peace in the land
of my forefathers.
If that means learning to
compromise, to see our
neighbors as human beings
and not as a great faceless
Them, to recognize that there
are not two sides to every
issue but rather 20, at least .I
have the faith to believe it can
be done and the zeal to do my
part in making it happen.
If I were asked to sum-
marize myself while standing
on one foot, as Hillel was once
asked to summarize the
Torah, I would answer this
way: I am a. Jew and a Zionist,
and if that makes me a racist,
so be it. ❑