26618 Southfield Rd. • Visit Our Showroom, 2 Blocks South of 1-696 • Lathrup Village • (248) 424-7300 Congratulations Israel On 50 Golden Years! THIS IS THE SMITH'S POOL DECK... THIS IS THE SMITH'S RETAINING WALL... THIS IS HOW THE SMITHS DID Fendt Builder's Supply has the pavers (many colors and shapes) and Keystone self-locking retaining wall systems that can make your home a showplace. Call for the name of a dealer near you. The Symetry paver and the Keystone retaining walls are distributed exclusively through Fendt Dealers. 5/1 1998 86 "A:4, i.4, 5 , . ?;p Call The Sales Department (248) 354-7123 Ext. 209 ii...474-3211 The natural beauty of stone Fendt Builder's Supply, Inc. 22005 Gill Road • Farmington Hills, MI 48335 • 810-474-321I 3285 West Liberty • Ann Arbor, MI 48103 • 313-663-4277 Get Results... Advertise in our new Entertainment Section! DETROIT JEWISH MEWS choices. All were based on the accumu- lation of Israeli power. • In the late 1950s, a young Shimon Peres helped establish the Israeli nuclear program and the military link to the United States. • In June 1967, Levi Eshkol decided to preemptively strike Arab neighbors. In the aftermath of the war, Golda Meir chose to annex Jerusalem, build Israeli settlements in the territories, apply Israeli law to the Golan Heights. • In 1973-74, Meir chose to sign agreements with Egypt's President Sadat. • In 1978, Menachem Begin accepted the notion of Palestinian autonomy and chose to sign a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979. • In 1991, Yitzhak Shamir opted not to retaliate to the Iraqi SCUD attacks; he chose to negotiate with Arab states at the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference. • In 1993 and afterwards, Yitzhak Rabin voluntarily signed the Oslo Agreements with the Palestinians and agreed to return portions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. He enthusiastically signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. • In 1997, Bibi Netanyahu finally chose to share the religiously important city of Hebron with the Palestinians, giving up the political right's cherished ideology of Greater Israel. The central turning point in all of the above was the June 1967 war. David slew the Arab Goliath. Israel held the Syrian Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, all of Egyptian Sinai — and controlled the lives of half the world's Palestinians. The Arab world, Israelis, diaspora Jews, and a world community learned that the Jewish state was not subject to destruction. Emerging from the conflict, was an American dominated 30-year process of negotiating Israeli agreements and treaties with the Arab world. The essence of negotiations were: Under what conditions, over what period of time, and what security agreements would Israel receive if and when she returned some or all of the territories taken in the June 1967 war? y et, as Ehud Barak noted recent- ly, it's much more complicated than wars and peace treaties. Nothing occurs in a vacuum. The Jewish people are at a crossroads. With its economy booming and with the Arab-Israeli conflict evolving into a series of Arab-Israeli relationships, Israel is redefining its character and soul. Israel's doinestic agenda is no longer