September 27, 1970 (vol. 81, iss. 22) • Page Image 4
… &4411 an 3 t Eighty years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The…
… HEART of the matter in the present Middle East situation is the fate of the 2.5 million Pales- tinian Arabs; some 600,000 are scattered through the refugee camps in Egypt, Jordan. Syria and Lebanon…
…; othershave done well in these countries and else- where in the Arab world; some live under Israeli rule. In 1948, when the UN proposed partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, the…
… Palestinian Arabs did not seize the moment. They have been literally stateless since then. The fedayeen are Palestinian The Middle East impasse Arabs. The urban terrorists are Palestinian Arabs. The men mov…
…- ing across the deserts of Jordan Are Palestinian Arabs. For too long the older generation of Israeli leaders (especially those of Golda Meir's age, the Eastern European Zionists) have refused to…
… long with- out success about the Viet Cong. The Palestinian Arabs might call themselves Marxists, Maoists, or any of a dozen other names; but in essence they are nationalists. Like the Israelis, they…
… both the Palestinian Arabs and the Israelis. The Arabs will have to gave up the nut rhetoric abofit driving the Israelis into the sea. That is not going to happen; the Israelis are there to stay. But the…
… Israelis would have to cooperate too. Those Palestinian Arabs who lost their homes and properties -in 1948 would have to be compensated for, their losses. But more important , the Israelis would have to rec…
…- ognize the legitimacy of the Pales- tinian Arab government. ,* SUCH A SOLUTION would have mutual advantages and some large dangers. The ?alestinians are pro- ducts of the olitics of grievance (as, in…
… Israelis and the U.S. government, might object to a Jordan that is Marxist or radical; but the Pales- tinian Arabs are already led by Marxists, and have, already been radicalized. The difference now is that…

































