Israel Heavy Middle Herbert Jacob Feldman Kairfinall P erhaps there is no greater symbol of Kavod Ha,Met (honoring the dead) than the Shomer, the religious watchman who prays for the soul of the deceased. From the first family we served 57 years ago; to the present, our chapel is staffed with a Shomer 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our legacy is serving Detroit's Jewish community with dignity and adherence to tradition. THE KAUFMAN COMMUNITY CORNER THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community its funeral customs and traditions. Visit the The Ira Kaufman Ira Kaufman Chapel Chapel has created a Web site to describe Web Site at www.iralcaufman.com and explain the tenets of our religion in Judaism draws upon responding to death as a 3,000-year history for a celebration of life. to write him off yet. Nor should the Clinton Administration embrace him uncritically as a friendly pragmatist who can make things happen. It was Sharon, more than anyone, who gave Netanyahu a pretext for pushing Madeleine Albright's December deadline into the new year. Israelis, the prime minister insisted, were not going to be pressured into ERIC SILVER taking ill-considered decisions which Israel Correspondent their children and grandchildren would have to live and die with. t was September 1978, Day 11 Ministers had to weigh the risks. - of the Camp David summit Sharon produced his own map of that paved the way for the Israel's irreducible West Bank "nation- Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. al interests." He guided journalists Anwar Sadat was threatening to go and cabinet colleagues on tours of the home if Menachem Begin would not terrain. His assessments of what Israel evacuate the Jewish settlements in could safely give up, and what it had Sinai. to keep, were at odds One of the Israel with those of Defense prime minister's military Minister Yitzhak aides surreptitiously Mordechai and the mil- phoned Ariel Sharon, itary establishment. war hero and settlers' The Israeli media are champion, and asked calling it "the war of whether Israel could the maps." Mordechai safely pull them out. is proposing that Israel Sharon's answer, to the hold on to 55 per cent aide and later to Begin, of the West Bank. was yes. The prime Sharon wants to keep minister was persuaded; 70 per cent. Mordechai Sadat unpacked his wants an eastern securi- bags. ty belt 10-15 kms wide Four years later, as - along the Jordanian Ariel Sharon is the settlers' defense minister, Sharon border and a western champion. completed the evacua- security belt across the tion and razed the set- 1948-67 "green line" of 3-6 kms. tler town of Yamit to the sand. The Sharon is demanding 20 kms in the same Sharon, in the early 1990s, east and 7-10 kms in the west. No forced through the biggest settlement- one was asking the Palestinians. building drive ever in the West Bank Their disagreement gave and Gaza Strip. Netanyahu credible grounds for beg- The settlers and their right-wing ging more time from the Americans. allies are still not sure whose side the What seems to have swayed the assis- mountainous old warrior is on. When tant secretary of state, Martin Indyk, they assailed him for facilitating fur- even more was Netanyahu's plea that ther West Bank redeployments, he could make no contentious deci- Sharon accused them of not knowing sions until the 1998 budget had their friends from their foes. passed the Knesset. The legislative Now Binyamin Netanyahu's deadline was Dec. 31. national infrastructure minister, Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz columnist Sharon has given the settlers cause for and former Washington correspon- suspicion. During the 1996 election dent, reported this week that campaign, he declared: "If the Likud Netanyahu challenged a visiting endorses the Oslo accords, it has no American delegation to cite one right to exist." In the same year, he example where he had deceived the wrote: "We will not permit the estab- administration. When they declined lishment of a Palestinian state." to answer, the prime minister persist- Now, as the right sees it, Sharon is ed: "Who would President Clinton drawing maps that will resurrect Oslo. rather buy a used car from, me or And, visiting the United States, he Yassir Arafat?" assured the White House recently that Congressman Gary Ackerman a Palestinian state was already a fact broke the silence. "If you're asking of life. me," he replied, "I'd walk." ❑ But the settlers would be wise not Ariel Sharon has everyone guessing at his sentiments as a key man in producing a delayed West Bank pullout. 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