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Mr. Bainerman, a former
economics editor at the
Jerusalem Post, took the
hardest line during his
speech at Oakland Univer-
sity.
"Don't delude yourselves,"
he said. "Israelis don't think
there ever will be a Palestin-
ian state in the West Bank."
Mr. Bainerman, who drew
mainly on his experience
studying economics, con-
cluded that even if Palestin-
ians can have unified polit-
ical leadership, they will
lack economic stability.
"It takes decades to de-
velop an economy," he said.
"The connection between po-
litical stability and economic
development is never
discussed."
Ultimately, Mr. Bainer-
man advocates removing
military control over the
West Bank by annexation,
forcing dissidents to move to
Jordan and forming a re-
gional legislature that will
control the internal affairs of
the area.
His model, which he likens
to Puerto Rico's relationship
to the United States, is the
only way for Palestinians to
achieve any autonomy, he
said.
"They're very close to corn-
ing up with nothing," he
said of the Palestinians.
"The best thing for them
would be to promote a Pales-
tinian state in Jordan."
In Aim Arbor, a univer-
sity-sponsored forum
featured journalists Richard
Straus, editor of Middle East
Policy Review, and Hisham
Melhem, a Washington-
based correspondent for As-
Safir, a Lebanese dRily
Raymond Tanter, a U-M
political science professor,
moderated the forum.
Mr. Straus analyzed the
Middle East situation as a
result of the end of Soviet in-
fluence. The White House
decided that "the days of the
free lunch were over," thus
signaling a new age in the
relationship between the
United States and Israel.
Sunday, December 15, 1991 at 7:30 pm
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Mr. Melhelm, who spoke
without restraining his per-
sonal stake in the conflict,
explained that Arab nations
resent living under Israel's
"shadow of power."
"The balance of power is
clearly in the Israelis'
hands," he said. With that in
mind, he defended Syria's
right to spoil a peace agree-
ment from which it receives
no assurances of peace from
Israel.
"The question is not coex-
istence, but the nature of
that coexistence," Mr.
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