Mobile Intensive Care Unit Ambulance was gifted to Magen
David Adorn (MDA), Israel's National Emergency Medical
Ambulance and Disaster Service, by Sarah and Irving Pitt.
This is the third fully equipped Ambulance the Pitts have so gener-
ously presented to the people of Israel in honor of their children,
Murray, Leonard, Barry and their families.

It is inconceivable that 180,000 of
the most fiercely nationalistic Jews in
Israel could be relocated, or that any
Israeli government would agree to it.
Yet this remains the Palestnians'
demand. For the settlers, the removal
of even one of them is far too many.
Then, of course,. there is the issue
of Jerusalem. To the overwhelming
majority of Israelis, there is nothing
to talk about — Jerusalem is all
theirs, the unified capital of Israel
alone, with none of it ever to be the
capital of Palestine.
The Palestinians, on the other
hand, want all of East Jerusalem —
the part of the city captured by Israel
in the Six Day War, where nearly half
of the 350,000 residents are Jews.
Many Israeli doves have tried to
come up with a compromise whereby
Israel would retain control over the
Jewish neighborhoods of East
Jerusalem, while Palestine would set
up its capital in the Arab neighbor-
hoods. It seems a potentially work-
able idea; the Jewish and Arab parts
of East Jerusalem are quite discrete
geographically.
Yet not only is this notion anathe-
ma to nearly all Israelis, for whom
"united Jerusalem" is a supreme
national value, but the Palestinian
leadership has never warmed to the
idea, either. The PA is sticking to its
demand for all of East Jerusalem,
Arab and Jewish.

Compared to making peace with
the Palestinians, then, making peace
with Syria seems easy. The territory in
dispute with Syria is the Golan
Heights, and there are "only" 17,000
Jews living there.
Barak has said the idea of "peace
with the Golan" is an illusion, and he
hasn't ruled out giving back all of it as
Syrian President Hafez Assad
demands. It is widely assumed that
Barak is in fact ready to meet Assad's
condition. "We are committed to
making peace with Syria, and every-
body knows what the price is,"
Minister Haim Ramon said recently.
Yet again, this is much easier said
than done.
It involves relocating 17,000 Jews
— and not just any Jews, but Jews
who made settling the Golan their
life's cause. They will not go quietly,
nor will they, as•Shimon Peres once
suggested, agree to live under Syrian
rule, even if Syria would agree to let
them stay, which is unlikely.
The West Bank and Gaza settle-
ments, East Jerusalem, the Golan
Heights — territories where over
350,000 Jews live, territories that
Yasser Arafat and Hafez Assad are
demanding total sovereignty over in
return for peace. This is what Ehud
Barak faces.
While peace may no longer be
impossible, it is still far from being
inevitable.

The equipment of ARMDI Mobile Intensive Care Unit includes EKG
monitor module with cardioscope, a defibrillator scope synchronizer,
two way communication system, resuscitator, oxygen, intravenous
device for glucose and saline solutions and medical supplies. This
sophisticated equipment enables the paramedics assigned to each
unit to administer emergency life saving assistance on the spot with-
out delays and also analyze recommended treatment on the way to
the hospital. Manny Charach, Chairman of the Dr. John J. Mames
Chapter-Michigan Region commended this outstanding family for
their devotion, generosity and staunch support of Israel. Manny
Charach emphasized the importance of this gift stating, "Magen
David Adorn literally deals with life and death affecting every man,
woman and child from all walks of life in Israel. By honoring your
family, there are people in Israel today who will owe their future to
you because of your precious lifesaving ambulance. Your ARMDI
MICU will bring the hope of a brighter future to the premature baby,
the sick and to victims of accidents and terrorist attacks."

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create demilitarized zones, buffer
zones, and limited force zones; both
are willing to accept the monitoring
of international or American
observers; both want American-led
foreign aid to compensate their
countries for increased Israeli secu-
rity needs and considerable Syrian
economic assistance.
Assad knows he missed an oppor-
tunity reach an agreement with Peres
in early 1996, just before Netanyahu's
May 1996 election. Assad is 68, with
periodic health problems and a desire
to set a negotiating process in motion
so that he can, with less difficulty,
turn the country's leadership over to
his son, Bashshar.
Barak wants to negotiate with
Assad rather than an unknown suc-
cessor, sensing that Assad can make a
deal stick with the Syrian people,

much as Arafat did with the
Palestinians.
Barak has already promised
Israelis that he wants to remove
Israeli troops from Lebanon within
a year. A key to that accomplish-
ment will be Syrian readiness to
rein in a variety of anti-Israel
groups in southern Lebanon who
otherwise have received economic
assistance, logistical support, and
often a green light from Damascus.
A Barak-Assad pact would, not
coincidentally, allow President Bill
Clinton to chalk up a foreign policy
success in the waning year of his
administration. Given Syria's his-
toric enmity toward Israel, helping
to broker a deal could do for
Clinton what the Egyptian-Israeli
agreement did in 1977 for then-
President Jimmy Carter. Cl

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Photo from left: Ina, Murray, Sarah and Irving Pitt

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in Israel. For information call Michigan Region ARMDI 353-0434.

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