European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 13 the stars and stripes Anthony Lewis january 1978 one Central question future of palestinians a dozen issues Are on the but events since Anwar Sadat went to Jerusa Lem the drama and the disagreement have made it dear that peace in the Middle East depends essentially on the Resolution of of Central question the future of the difficult As the problem facing it is an important step not so Long ago a prime minister of Israel said there was no such thing As a palestinian and Many of supporters of have wished the problem away in similar Fash Ion existence of the palestinians saying that responsibility for them rested with the Arab we know better now there la a distinct group of arabs with origins in Palestine and roots there going Back Many hundreds of their Scute of attachment is and Many of those now living elsewhere feel themselves in a Diaspora just As jews did for so these anguished and angry people Are a fundamental cause of instability in the Middle their frustration endangers not Only Israel but her Arab who have of course used the but Are also bedevilled by disrupted in their politics and internal Given the any settlement proposal with a Chance of lasting Success must As Zbigniew Brzezinskl put it the other an arrangement which gives moderate palestinian a sense of an entity with which they can be Assoc the main task before the egyptian israeli political committee that talking his week is to define such an entity in Gaza and the West Bank in a Way that satisfies israels Security con but defining a place for the palestinians is not As the Carter Tion has palestinians them selves must be brought into the process of definition if the result is to have the legitimacy needed to have a Hope of settling the and a crucial question is which palestinians until Many in the West would have regarded the phrase moderate palestinians internally the palestinian figures who made the news tended to be violent in language and four years ago an american William noted signs of change in palestinian he wrote of a modest intellectual trend toward possible reconciliation with israels jewish Popula Tion and of some willingness to talk about political Quandt now assists Brzezinski on the staff of the National Security and the trend that he detected has Over the last two before Sadat moderate figures in the Palestine liberation organization had met privately with israeli doves and others to talk about settlement they made Clear that they now favored a two stale solution a palestinian min state alongside with agreed Borders and Security for a notable example of that trend was said the Flo representative in once he had taken part in guerrilla but he came to be known and respected As someone who favored peace with Israel to mention Hammami is to indicate the great risks some palestinians have taken in expressing moderate he was murdered in London the Plo the killing was done by a left palestinian punter group based in the intention was evidently to i away from the negotiating unsent to wit Nara or to recognize the f Idabel is h the and the i by in truck 4 in nil Ivlue my Hammami was not for a Plo representative in Isam Sar made a notably conciliatory speech in Vienna on he said the rejection is Arab Summit in Tripoli had been just and he said Sadat would have been praised As a hero by almost All Arab Stales if he had returned from Jerusalem with an israeli commitment to withdraw from the occupied areas or to recognize the rights of the for understandable against any dealings with the organizations top i Lent reaction to the Sadat Cost itself a Chance to enter the negotiating pro but it remains necessary to encourage participation by moderate that could be genuine West Bank figures at but one Hopes they would in Lime draw in moderate Plo ele an cd on Cess face the nation who the moderate palestinians wisely declined to he said they would define themselves by their willingness to participate in Tho negotiating process on the basis of the same premises As the especially the key United nations prime minister begin took a major step last summer when he at american to the inclusion of palestinians in a Geneva the american role now on this As on must be but our government should at least be talking with the moderate pales encouraging giving them support against the Radical and terrorist chm fort Tunn Jesse l Jackson supporters continue Kings work sunday was the birthday of Martin Luther King he would have been Only most we Admire in american life and history were hardly finished with their works at but Kings was finished when he kept his final Date with Des tiny at the age of How could one Man so touch and alter the american conscience in such a Short life How could such an Ordinary Man do so much and thai is what Martin Luther King was an Ordinary do you remember him As he was quiet of medium height and never a natural athlete or super a play do you remember his Ordinary origins a Public school student with parents who taught the principles of a conservative a Man for most of his was noted neither for his social conscience nor perfection in his own and dont forget the negative Power of one other fact of his life he was a Black Man in a White but As he matured he found Hal the conditions of life were no barriers to the will or he if you could discipline Martin Luther King Learned the Power of discipline Many Umes and in Many he began disciplining his mind As student at Morehouse College his Mastery of himself next led him to Boston University and to his doctorate in systematic the disciplined mind he developed As a student was never allowed to Meterio he was always hungry to know up to toe week of his death in Memphis 10 years be read at least one Book a week and not books of but of i remember that one Day during the bluer and terrifying Days of the Denvon in i saw three books in his briefcase one on Thoreau one by taught All of us around him so that the work could go on regardless of what pwned to the and those he taught have carried on Hli Coretta Andrew who wept on to Congress and now holds Cabinet rank ambassador to the United nations Walter once Washington mayor and now its representative to con Gress and there Are so Many and thousands have adopted the me and and though Lus life was consumed with prac Wing what he Browns and but in was his principles that gave Mil methods their he never yielded on he remained Public opinion Molder and never became j Public opinion Leader that is Raeo who reads the polls to find out where i j and he did this Ordinary he h so Well that his stature came to of Shadow thai of the presidents of his vet every Barrier he overcame led i to More formidable each the Odds became you and i know the damage that can j done when Boss or a criticizes but imagine How it have Hurt King when a United states and other Cissi Ighut in said he was wrong to oppose the i but history proved him Martin Luther King or Twoie peace Prim and the admiration of i world but All that he Nail was to continue to prove that the a diary people Are More powerful