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Reversals Of Fortune

The PLO accord is a Zionist dream come true for one American-born
Israeli and a Zionist nightmare for another.

LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

was going to do it the way Is-
radical leftist at Berkeley in the
merican Jews are a sin-
raelis do it."
late '60s and early '70s, he
gular population among
She stayed in Israel, and, as
spread nails on the streets of the
the immigrants who
soon as she could, went into the
San Francisco financial district
have moved to Israel.
army for three years in the ear-
and smashed windows of su-
In direct contrast to the
ly '70s.
permarkets that sold boycotted
masses who arrived from East-
Both these immigrants have
grapes. Sitting in the Jerusalem
ern Europe, the former Soviet
been through the wars. Ms.
apartment he shares with his
Union and the Middle East,
Tayar, who was a sharpshoot-
girlfriend Fromit — his son
Americans came as "select im-
er and communications spe-
from a previous marriage now
migrants" with the intention of
cialist attached to combat units,
serves in an elite military unit
making new lives in a country
was wounded by a Palestinian
— Mr. Peck said:
that was poorer and more dan-
grenade in Gaza and came un-
"I identified with the Pales-
gerous than the one they left.
der shelling near the Jordanian
tinian stone-throwers in a way
On the whole they are ideal-
border. Her husband, a para-
that someone who never threw
ists, Zionists of various stripes.
trooper, was reported missing
rocks at a policeman cannot."
Over the last month-and-a-half
in action during the Yom Kip-
A three-week trip to Israel in
their ideals have suddenly come
pur War when his unit was cut
1972 turned into a six-month
up against a new reality, and,
off in the Sinai.
stay, as he "fell in love" with the
depending on their politics,
At the war's end, he came
country. Living with relatives
they've been living with the re-
home "a robot, like the rest of
who had escaped the Holocaust
alization that in the next few
the soldiers did," Ms. Tayar
and with Palestinians in
years, their ideals are either go-
said, and they spent a year in
refugee camps, he was com-
ing to be fulfilled or destroyed.
Chicago to mend themselves be-
pelled by both the heroism and
For Yoav Peck, formerly Bo
fore returning to
Peck of Berke- -7,--3 --z-v.-
Israel.
ley, Calif., the
Mr. Peck's
specter of a
.1 It
war was in
Palestinian
Lebanon. When
state arising on
Israel invaded in
the borders of
1982, he was im-
Israel is a glori-
mediately called
ous one. For
up to his ar-
Yehudit Tayar,
tillery convoy
who was known
unit. He recalled
as Lois Tayar in
that on the sec-
Chicago, it is a
ond day of the
horror.
t war, he "saw a
Mr. Peck, 46,
E jeep with Ka-
of Jerusalem, is
tyusha rockets
a management
mounted on the
consultant and
liffilliggiatMOINfi roof, and behind
-TIONONtitrissabi
lal‘
;"s
activist with Israelis
crowd a Tel Aviv square in support of peace efforts.
the wheel was a
Peace Now,
dead Palestin-
where he runs
ian. I looked into the face of a
the "dark side" of the Zionist en-
encounters between Jewish and
man my age and saw myself."
terprise.
Palestinian youngsters. Ms.
On his first leave, he went to
The last night of his trip he
Tayar, 38, of the West Bank set-
Tel Aviv for an anti-war demon-
spent at a kibbutz, "unable to
tlement of Beit Horon, is a
stration, then returned to the
sleep, looking at the lights of Tel
telecommunications manager
fighting. Today, as an army re-
Aviv and the lights of Gaza, and
who speaks to groups of Israelis,
serve officer, he works with sol-
suddenly the idea of going back
foreign visitors and journalists
diers about to go on intifada
to Berkeley paled."
on behalf of the Council of Jew-
duty, trying to prepare them
After a brief trip back home,
ish Communities in Judea,
psychologically for what they
he returned to Israel for good.
Samaria and Gaza.
may face.
Ms. Tayar, by contrast, was
They are each model Amer-
The events of the last six
"nurtured on Israel." Speaking
ican immigrants; attractive, ar-
weeks have forced the two im-
at her house in Beit Horon,
ticulate, involved — and yet
migrants to switch places, to
where she lives with her hus-
they are opposites.
take up the other's usual posi-
band, Ami, and four children,
They live on opposite sides of
tion in society. Mr. Peck, the
she said her parents were
the Green Line, immigrated for
lifelong protester, now finds
among the first religious Zion-
utterly different reasons and be-
himself with the wind at his
ists in Chicago, and that she
gan their lives at vastly distant
back.
herself became a camp coun-
points along the spectrum of
Having gone to the big Tel
selor in the B'nei Akiva move-
American Jewry.
Aviv demonstration in support
ment.
Mr. Peck grew up in Leonia,
of the Israeli-PLO agreement,
After high school, counselors
N.J., where his father, a psy-
he said, "one of the most mov-
typically went to Israel to study
chiatry professor, and mother,
ing things for me was that this
for a year and then returned to
a psychologist, were "always on
was the first time in my life that
make their lives in America, but
the left." He remembers going
I was demonstrating in favor of
Tayar "decided that if I was go-
to black ghettoes at age 13 to
ing to be a part of this society, I
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