European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes june 1977 George will begin May negotiate Over Samaria 8kk into to if Krnic 0 of Israel is 1w what flip John Roche israeli Orange Trees Wither when their roots become entangled in roman in a Region where ancient history complicates political have tangled no one knows this belter than Menahem israels next prime his has been an insistent voice pro claiming israels right to Judea and Sama West Bank seized by Jordan in annexed by Jordan in Wand con lbs Mideast policy applauded once upon a time there was a presi Dent of the with a very sensible Middle Kastern his name Lyndon his policy let the contestants work out peace among Nas Sers got a he said to me in All Hes got to do is get a Jerusalem Tele phone the in was will ing to help if but basically if the Arab states wanted peace with they could take the then came the grand Marquis Duke Rogers and Prince who set to work with their erector sets to provide a great Power this was delightful for the arabs who could disconnect their phones and let the americans Lead the the israelis were properly but the minute they suggested the Ameri cans mind their own diplomatic All sorts of pressures were inspired leaks on israels intransigence dripped out of the White their arms requests were put on and Ameri can jewish pressure on the administration was portrayed As then came the 1973 yom kippur and the arabs discovered another weapon As i pointed out at the the rationale for the Oil Cartel came from the writings of the great islamic economist Abu Adam Smith the Oil producers began behaving like classical thus the presence or absence of Israel on the Middle Eastern map is utterly irrelevant to the Price of if Israel were on the the open nations would be sticking us however dismal the successive american administrations kept coming up with package solutions to the Ara Israel All were based on the bizarre concept that both sides would act in Good when the history of the past 30 years clearly demonstrated the Arab states do not want peace except on what might be called North vietnamese on for egyptian presi Dent Anwar Sadat regaled readers of his Hou Torgan and a Brief excerpt from his continuing memoirs gives the after i ordered the expulsion of the soviet experts from 1 Felt at said that this expulsion was a strategic camouflage or coverup for what i was going to do afterwards the expulsion of the russians was meant to assure the jews and leftist egyptians we were not going to fight the Maneu ver in very but the Tenor of Sadat commentary is hardly that of a dedicated the israeli voters fed Al this into their computers when they turned out the labor so statistics show when and Why liked received its in the israeli defense liked took labor per cent to 222 per among the opium on i relied in the and Carto Olu on still Page represent those of the authors and tit in no Way to m considered at representing the views of the Start  Eastern that is refugees from Arab liked again was ahead Why would the soldiers and Eastern jews throw out labor concede Day there were significant eco nomic and the old had gotten a Little lax in their commitment to socialist norms of personal but of the two groups mentioned who might be called the frontline groups because of their direct relationship with arabs labor was considered too so Menahem who has been billed in our press As son of Attila the is the new israeli this must be disconcerting to those who have been plugged into labor for 30 years an american jewish Leader was recently overheard what is a liked but begin is anything but the town his elec Tion statement called for direct negotiations Between Israel and its Arab in he suggested that imposed settlements were off but added Israel must not throw up her hands in not become weary of inviting her neigh time and to negotiate a Genu Ine peace without preconditions or formulations intruded from we do not require that the arabs accept our views As a prior condition of our participation in serious peace and we wont submit to demands that we accept their views As a prior condition for their participation in such for americans this statement should make sense it is precisely the posture taken by Ben Franklin and his associates in negotiating american Independence with the u was the Core of John sons policy lets Hope that president Carter curbs his missionary Zeal and aban dons great Power schemes of Tel King features exactly keep More que Rcd by Israel in response to Jordans aae ression 10 years ago this he does not speak of annexing it you do not Annex your own he Calls it liberated Israel and promises a new Settle ment at Eilon and Abraham Plain of Eilon Moreh and the lord beaded unto Abraham and unto thy seed will i give this land of old testament reports of what god said to Abraham will not do As a basis for begins that basis would break isreals traditional link Between territorial concerns and intensely practical Security which Are a function of changing military technology and Diplo Macy besides As has been said of glad worse than a politician with the truth up his sleeve is a politician who god put it begin knows that a politicians Best Friend is one who deafen him against the charge of not having meant what he had without convicting him of not saying what he so begin has sent such a Friend to Washington with this veiled message a nation can Only relinquish a right it has the insistence that Judea and Samaria Are rightfully brads does not mean that their status is not Neotia but arabs must negotiate directly with Israel and pay the Price if full begins election changes the but not necessarily the outcome of Neotia it can be argued from events Between 1917 and 1948 Between the Balfour Decla ration and israels War of Independence that Judea and Samaria in some rightfully tracing the Pedigree of states that exist where the ottoman Empire existed so years ago is a lawyers but the Middle East is not a Law and it is not in israels interest to make any Legal nicety the criterion of legitimate sovereignty Over the worlds sense of israels legitimacy rests on a particular understanding of an understanding that begin can jeopardize with reckless zionism began As a movement of Salva Tion to enable a people to save itself by be coming a concentrated and but arabs always have argued i that zionism is a movement of fanatical the leftist Intelli Gensia in the West is receptive to this and Western Public i eager for an excuse to regard Israel As Western Public regarded jews for centuries As an a Assimilable in Israel founded itself without much help from Western what help it received a momentary twinge of conscience in Western nations about complicity no softer word describes their sins of commission and omission in the the West is addicted to Arab Oil Western nations Are constant Only in Pursuit of convenience Western Public Are impatient with commitments that cant be justified on narrow calculations of israels existence depends on its tenuous told on the imagination of the West and especially of the american that bold depends on Israel appearing familiar part of the Western so Israel must not begin to appear Israel cannot seem to be hearing mysterious voices and obeying strange it must express its claims to legitimacy to the wests shrewd vocabulary of democratic its aspirations must be intelligible to the secular people who could not care less what god promised to Washington Post