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aniel Polisar has a pet
watchdog —group, that is.
The 30-year-old Israeli,
originally from New Jer-
sey, has spearheaded a private-
ly funded organization called
Peace Watch to monitor compli-
ance with provisions in the ac-
cords between Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion.
"I'm not interested in whether
a person thinks the peace accord
was a good idea or a bad idea,"
Mr. Polisar said.
"The cards are on the table.
The accord is politically and
legally binding. What Peace
Watch is in the business of doing
is making sure that both the Is-
raelis and the Palestinians are
doing what they committed
themselves to do," he said.
Mr. Polisar addressed a group
of nearly 20 young adults who
gathered Oct. 16 at the Bloom-
field Hills home of Ricky Blu-
menstein. Jesse Levine from Ann
Arbor coordinated the event for
Mr. Polisar, whom he knows
through family and business con-
nections.
"I felt it was very important to
provide a forum in which people
can hear about Peace Watch,"
Mr. Levine said. "Too often, I per-
sonally feel a difficulty in getting
my hands around the salient is-
sues in the Middle East. Dan's
organization can provide a much
fuller picture and context from
which to understand individual
and specific behavior on both
sides. We must have all the
facts."
Activists with Peace Watch
represent views from 85 percent
of the parties in Israel's Knesset,
Mr. Polisar said. Among Peace
Watch committee members are
Natan Sharansky, associate ed-
itor of the Jerusalem Report, and
Aaron Klieman, professor of in-
ternational relations at Tel Aviv
University.
To date, the board does not in-
clude a Palestinian, although
that was the original plan.
"It doesn't include Palestini-
ans because the issue of compli-
ance is too sensitive in
Palestinian society to enable se-
rious Palestinian leaders to join
a group which often must criti-
cize Palestinian action in strong,
terms," Mr. Polisar said. "(How-
ever), we consult with Palestin-
ian lawyers and political leaders
to get their understandings. I
think our reports and statements
are a fair and accurate reflection
of what is happening."
The organization functions by
gathering daily news about
Arab-Israeli relations and de-
termining the legality of events
according to the Israel-PLO ac-
cords. Peace Watch distributes
its information to governments,
as well as to the Israeli, Pales-
tinian and international media.
"I think the real overall impact
is affecting the way the topic
is discussed," Mr. Polisar
said. "We've helped to make the
issue of compliance more promi-
nent."
Last Sunday, Mr. Polisar told
his audience of young adults that
the kidnapping and murder of
19-year-old Israeli Cpl.
Nachshon Waxman by the radi-
cal group Hamas was not in vio-
lation of the September 1993
agreement.
"llamas is not a signatory to
the peace accords," he said.
However, Mr. Polisar blamed
Yassir Arafat for not taking a
strong enough stand against ter-
rorism. To achieve lasting peace
— moreover, to win strong pub-
lic sentiment against llamas —
Palestinian leaders must pro-
mote among their populace anti-
terrorist values, he said.
"The cards are on
the table."
— Daniel Polisar
"There are no serious voices in
the Palestinian campaign, in-
cluding Yassir Arafat's, saying
that there is something funda-
mentally, morally and political-
ly wrong with terrorism," Mr.
Polisar said. "The principal way
Mr. Arafat can influence Hamas
is by working to affect public
opinion."
Peace Watch also notes that
Palestinians have extradited no
terrorists to Israel, as promised.
They also have failed to try and
punish people responsible for
half of the 16 murders of Israelis
since May of this year.
The watchdog group also
states that the Palestinian police
force is insufficiently confiscat-
ing unlicensed weapons that
pass through the Gaza-Jericho
borders and, contrary to the ac-
cords, the Palestinian Authority
is not cooperating with Israeli in-
telligence officials.
"The security situation for Is-
raelis in Gaza is substantially
worse than it was a year ago,"
Mr. Polisar said.
Peace Watch reports that be-
tween Sept. 9, 1993 and Sept. 8,
1994, 66 Israelis have been