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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1992
the Carter Center, said Mr.
Begin considered the sur-
vival and reputation of the
Jewish people paramount.
"He never allowed any
listener to escape without
hearing about Jewish suffer-
ing," said Dr. Stein. "But his
most salient contribution to
Jewish history was his abil-
ity to compromise, even on
deeply held ideological
issues."
Dr. Stein, who has a Uni-
versity of Michigan doc-
torate in modern Middle
Eastern history, praised Mr.
Begin for agreeing to uproot
Jewish settlements from ter-
ritory taken in the Six-Day
War as a prerequisite for
signing the peace accords
with Egypt.
"He knew removing Egypt
as a threat would solidify
Israel's right to exist in the
Middle East," he said.
"Though he vowed never to
give up land in Israel, he
saw Sinai as a necessary
compromise for the good of
the Jewish people and for
the good of the Jewish
state."
Alexandria native Wael
Bakhaty said Egyptians to-
day respect Mr. Begin for
Making peace with Egypt.
"At first when (Egyptian
President Anwar) Sadat
made peace with Israel, peo-
ple hated him for it," said
Mr. Bakhaty, now of Bloom-
field Hills. "We respect
Begin a lot more than
Shamir. We hate Shamir."
A spokesman for the Egyp-
tian Embassy in Washing-
ton, D.C., said Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
sent cables of condolence to
Israeli President Chaim
Herzog and to the family of
Mr. Begin.
Egypt's Foreign Minister
Amr Moussa attended Mr.
Begin's funeral and said the
Israeli's "understanding of
land for peace paid great
service to the peace process."
But Khalil Jahshan, ex-
ecutive director of the Na-
tional Association of Arab
Americans in Washington,
D.C., said "words of praise
don't come automatically
when talking about
Menachem Begin.
"While we sympathize on
a human level, when one
looks at his political legacy
we see nothing but intran-
sigence and hatred," said
Mr. Jahshan, a Palestinian.
This is not what is seen by
Hannan Liss, 33, of Hun-
tington Woods. Both his
parents fought alongside Mr.
Begin in the Irgun. "I grew
up hearing about Begin,"
said Mr. Liss, who moved
from Israel to Detroit in
1983.
"He was an idealist who
believed in solid principles,
democratic rule and human
rights. He tried to live his
life according to it. He had
no patience for backroom
manipulations.
"As one of the builders of
Israel, he was the last of a
dying breed, the last of the
Mohicans." ❑
NEWS 1
Rabbis Oppose
Settlement Growth
New York (JTA) — More
than 250 Reform, Conser-
vative and Reconstructionist
rabbis have signed a letter
urging Democratic presiden-
tial contenders, if elected, to
oppose the growth of Israeli
settlements in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip "no
less vigorously than the
Bush administration."
The letter, circulated by
the Jewish Peace Lobby, is
believed to be only the se-
cond public statement by a
Jewish group supporting the
administration's policy of
linking loan guarantees for
immigrant absorption in
Israel with a halt to set-
tlement activity in the ter-
ritories.
This remains a minority
view in the Jewish commun-
ity, as 90 percent of the
3,000 rabbis to whom the
letter was circulated refused
to sign on.
The letter looks ahead to
the possibility that the Bush
administration will be
replaced by one of the Dem-
ocratic presidential can-
didates and expresses con-
cern over the consequences if
the present focus on pro-
moting the peace process
and halting the expansion of
Israeli settlements in the
West Bank is not continued.
The Israeli government
has justified its settlement
policy as necessary to pre-
vent the establishment of
such a state, which the U.S.
government officially op-
poses as well.
Responding to question-
naires, the candidates took
positions much closer to
those of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee,
the mainstream pro-Israel
lobby and publisher of Near
East Report, than to those of
the Jewish Peace Lobby.