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The publisher of
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visit to Israel and several Arab countries.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1992
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Senior Writer
M
ort Zuckerman,
realtor-turned-
publisher, combines
the two professions when he
devotes his column in U.S.
News and World Report,
which he owns, to solving
the dilemma of Mideast real
estate. As in who should con-
trol what piece of land?
Mr. Zuckerman, a strong
pro-Israel voice in his
writings, returned from a re-
cent 10-day fact-finding visit
to the region shaken by the
level of anti-Semitism
among some Arab leaders
yet hopeful about the pro-
spects for peace.
He survived a classic anti-
Semitic harangue from the
Syrian foreign minister, who
also could not comprehend
why the West claims his
country supports terrorists.
He heard Palestinian
Islamic fundamentalists
rant about the Moslem
imperative to rescue all
lands from the "occupying"
Israeli hordes and concluded
that Syria expects to recover
all of the Golan Heights.
Yet Mr. Zuckerman is con-
vinced there can be a
Mideast peace based on ter-
ritorial compromise, a Jor-
danian-Palestinian federa-
tion, and the "good fences,"
as he calls them, on the
mountains and ridges of the
West Bank and the Golan
Heights which would some-
how remain in Israeli hands
as a buffer zone against
ground forces from the Arab
east.
"The issue," he said in his
office at U.S. News, "is not
whether people like each
other, but whether people
are prepared to live with
each other. For ,there to be
any kind of viable, long-
term, self-reinforcing and
self-enforcing agreement,
there have to be these 'good
fences' to present a physical
barrier to the kind of land
attack which has been so
prevalent over the last 45
years."
Mr. Zuckerman explained
that his Mideast visit was
organized by the Washing-
ton Institute for Near East
Policy, a pro-Israel group.
Mr. Zuckerman's traveling
companions were Martin In-
dyk, executive director of the
Washington Institute; Mit-
chell Levitas, op-ed page
editor of the New York
Times; Ted Clarke, National
Public Radio's chief diplo-
matic correspondent; Sam
Lewis, former U.S. ambas-
sador to Israel and current
president of the United
States Institute of Peace in
Washington; Robert Oakley,
former special assistant to
President Reagan for the
Middle East and the State
Department's former chief of
counter-terrorism; and Peter
David, the Economist maga-
zine's international affairs
editor.
The study tour, which
visited Jordan, Syria, Leb-
anon and Israel, was the
Washington Institute's
latest annual excursion
through the Middle East.
Last year, it took a group of
journalists and U.S. policy-
Zuckerman
survived a classic
anti-Semitic
harangue from the
Syrian foreign
minister.
makers to Israel and Saudi
Arabia shortly before the
Gulf War erupted.
This year's trip included
more than 38 meetings with
top officials, military leaders
and journalists.
Overall, Mr. Zuckerman
noticed a somewhat con-
tradictory dichotomy: He
was "astounded by the
commitment to peace of all
the parties, especially the
Israelis and the Jordanians,
but also the Syrians." But he
was also troubled by "how
little attitudes have chang-
ed."
Hostility to Jews and to
Israel among high-level
Syrian officials, he said,
"was like nothing I had ever
encountered in all my life
except for reading (the
classic anti-Semitic screed)
The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion."
When the westerners were
asked, for example, by
Syria's foreign minister to
explain the close relation-
ship between Israel and the
United States, they referred
to the shared dual values of
democracy and the Judeo-
Christian tradition.
"To which," said Mr.
Zuckerman, "the foreign
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