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`Policy Of Appeasement'

Former Israeli diplomat blasts Barak
and peace talks run amok.

Rabbi
Chaim Moshe Bergstein

Rabbi
Moshe Poker M.A.

Director

Assistant Principal

DAVID SACHS

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"Educate the child according to his way, so that even when
he is old he will not budge from it" (Proverbs 22:6)

In his West Bloomfield speech,
however, Aumann applied his histori-
cal focus to Israel's struggle with
present-day Palestinians — and
issued a rebuke of the modern-day
Barak.

etired Israeli diplomat
Moshe.Aumann harbors
profound doubts about
the direction of recent
Middle East peace negotiations.
Peace Talk Miscues
He is particularly wary of the
Aumann said Barak's mistake was not
readiness of Israeli Prime Minister
the original pursuit of the Oslo peace
Ehud Barak to compromise on
process itself, but "not knowing
Jerusalem, and of the absence of
when and where to stop this pursuit.
peaceful intentions shown by
Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat.
Aumann, who
retired 11 years ago
with the diplomatic
rank of minister,
spoke Jan. 20 at
Congregation Beth
Ahm in West
Bloomfield. He issued
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scathing criticism of
Barak for offering
most of the Old City
of Jerusalem to the
Palestinians. Appalled,
slc.,, zattA‘‘P"
Aumann has called for
Barak's ouster in the
Israeli election Feb. 6.
Aumann looks at
the peace process with
an strong historical
focus. He believes that
Israel should cherish
and protect its spiri-
tual and historical
Moshe Aumann at Beth Ahm
heritage, including
Jerusalem, instead of
making wholesale, unilateral conces-
"The mistake," Aumann contin-
sions.
ued, "was totally ignoring Arafat's
Aumann, a former journalist and
failure to honor a singe one of the
diplomatic information officer, has a
commitments he made in 1993,
unique historical perspective. Some
including the commitment to negoti-
30 years ago, he edited three volumes
ate in good faith and not resort to
of imitation newspaper pages called
violence.
Chronicles
News of the Past,
"The mistake was not drawing the
reporting, in newspaper format,
line in the concessions we offered
Jewish history from the earliest bibli-
when it came to the preservation of
cal times of Abraham through
our spiritual heritage and protection
Zionism's founder Theodor Herzl.
of our history."
J'he books included imaginary
Aumann fears that concessions
3,000-year-old headlines like,
Barak made to Arafat at last July's
"DEBORAH DECLARES WAR ON
Camp David summit with President
CANAANITES! ... Barak in
Clinton, offering most of the Old
Command." The Barak referred to
City of Jerusalem and the Temple
was Judge Deborah's military leader.
Mount area, cannot be undone by

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