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3. "Dual containment" RIP.
That bedrock American policy,
which aims to "contain" both Iran and
Iraq through tough economic sanc-
tions and a policy of international iso-
lation, is under growing pressure from
the Europeans, who are eager to trade
freely with both countries, and the
Russians, who are eager to be some-
thing more than a great power has-
been.
With some recent hints of modera-
tion in Teheran — and with the con-
tinuing crisis over Iraq's arsenal of
chemical and biological weapons —
Washington will face strong pressure
to explore limited normalization with
Iran as a way of keeping allies lined up
in the fight against Iraq.
Washington will move warily, and
officials here will continue to look for
ways to leverage the Iranians away
from support for terrorism and from
their own non-conventional arms
buildup.
Jewish groups, which have turned
dual containment into hard dogma,
won't be happy, but the handwriting is
on the wall.
1998 promises
to be another
roller coaster
ride.
4. More of the same for the
Middle East peace process.
Does Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu genuinely want
peace, or is he simply trying to find a
way to derail Oslo without taking the
blame? Is Palestinian leader Yassir
Arafat committed to living in peace
with his Israeli neighbors, or are the
negotiations just a tactical maneuver
in pursuit of his ultimate goal — all of
"Palestine," which just happens to
include all of Israel?
U.S. policymakers are trying to
close the Israeli-Palestinian gap with-
out really knowing the answers to
those core questions. With the frac-
tious Israeli government in a deal
making frenzy over the deadlocked _
budget, it's unlikely the ambiguity will
be cleared up anytime soon.
So look for more of the same: more
movement toward a big U.S.- Israel
clash, but also a continuing reluctance
in Washington to really mix it up with
the Netanyahu government. With
elections just around the corner, who
needs those kind of tsuris (worries)?
5. Pluralism problems continue.
For Reconstructionist, Reform and
Conservative Jews — the overwhelm-
ing majority of American Jews — the
perception that they are being disen-
franchised by a politically dominant
Orthodox minority in Israel is becom-
ing the only Mideast issue that mat-
ters.
That threatens to weaken the pro-
Israel coalition in Washington at a
time when U.S.-Israel tensions are on
the rise, and it promises dire commu-
nal consequences.
Memo to Bibi: If you care about
the ongoing commitment of American
Jews to Israel, you must devote more
than lip service to the pluralism ques-
tion in 1998. ❑
Hollywood Saves
Jewish Cemetery
Los Angeles (JTA) — The last resting
place for some of Hollywood's famous
Jews has been rescued from oblivion.
The cemetery holds the graves of
actors Paul Muni and Peter Lorre; Mel
Blanc, the voice of many popular car-
toon characters; producers Harry
Cohn and Jesse Lasky; composer Erich
Wolfgang Korngold; and mobster
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
Famous
Jews
rest in peace.
Beth Olam is the Jewish section of
Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery,
which has been in bankruptcy for 18
months and earlier was close to being
padlocked and abandoned.
Trustees had been fruitlessly seeking
a buyer for more than a year and were
ready to close down the cemetery
when the Callanan Mortuary offered
$375,000 for the memorial park and
promised to refurbish the badly
neglected grounds.
The bailout came as a great relief to
the city's Jews, who feared that they
might be prevented from visiting and
tending some 20,000 graves. Others
faced the loss of pre-paid burial plots,
crypts and mausoleum vaults.