European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes monday november 11, 1985 William f. Buckley rabbi Kahane sees the problem not the solution rabbi Kasiane to continues to Shock sensitive israelis blessedly the majority puts it very simply when he de scribes the israeli dilemma i Israel is a democracy. 2 Israel has 3 million jews. 3 Israel has 2 million arabs. 4 arabs Breed faster than jews. 5 the future under the circumstances is bound to Sec an Israel in which arabs outnumber jews. 6 As of that moment arabs will use democratic mechanisms to prevent is Rael from being a jewish state. 7 accordingly the time has come before it is too late to expel arabs from israeli soil. There arc any number of humane and constitutional objections to doing what rabbi Kahane proposes. But before dwelling on these one ought to examine whether his dilemma comprehends All possibilities for Israel. It is True that Israel is a democratic state. But it need not follow that it is a state that permits the majority to alter the nature of the state. Our Constitution is accepted As a democratic instrument vet in specifics hat certain articles Are beyond the reach of a constitutional amendment . The right of states to equal representation in a Senate. There was a memorable scene Back in 1952 when King George i died and his daughter was summoned from Kenya to undertake her duties As Sovereign of the British Empire. Winston Churchill and his Cabinet stood at attention As she Dis mounted the air plane. He disappeared with the Young lady into what looked like a shed and a few Brief moments the Queen designate was invisible. What the prime minister or his surrogate did was hear from the Sovereign designate under oath that she was not a secret member of the roman Catholic Church an ancient tradition dating Back to the re a Ormarion or More specifically to the jacobite tensions of inc 17th Century. The explanation is that the Sovereign of great Britain is sex offi Cio the head of the Church of England and great Britain is officially and constitutionally a protestant William Safire faj7rakahanb country. And soil would remain Persu Mably even if its Catholic population now about 10 percent were gradually to out Recd the hot stants. Kahane s hypothetical threat could be removed by a constitutional codicil de Claring the slate of Israel to be a jewish state defining briefly what customs and protocols would be observed in the state Foremost among them being the right of any jew to immigrate to Israel. Any Citi zen of Israel could then be asked to vow to support that codicil before being accorded a vote. Such an evolution in the jewish Constitution would be perfectly harmonious with the very idea of Israel namely that in is the jewish Homeland. Would such a measure Slop Kahane and his movement one fears it would not primarily because there arc palpable grounds for believing that Kahane in a virulent anti Arab racist and that lie wants the arabs expelled less because he tears their democratic strength than be cause he loathes their ethnic presence. His arguments arc similar to those of professor William Shockley who peaked when he discovered the transistor and devoted himself thereafter to elaborating a theory of what he called by Szenics namely the tendency of the less Bright he Speaks of american Blacks to Breed fas Ter than the More Bright he Means Whites. Professor Shockley s bizarre idea has been to bribe Blacks to accept sterilization in order to catch the rising Black population before it overwhelms us. These Are solutions offensive to any notion of Equality at whatever level. If the Israel of Kahane does not acknowledge that at one level All men an equal then he does not read carefully the words of Yahweh who although the Jen were the chosen people was Bent on re deeming All of Mankind. Kahane it not going to take Over Israel thou he disturbs Many friends of Israel by the splash he is making particularly among the Young and thoughtless. We have just declared him to have lost his citizenship because he serves in the parliament of another nation. That May be the in friendliest thing we Ever did to Israel. But he is Israel s problem primarily. And he is Best countenanced by sealing off the facile syllogism on which he rests his Case. It is difficult to imagine who would object to the official designation of Israel As a jewish state a jewish state beyond the capacity of any majority to alter. Having done that the other humane arguments assume greater Force. Israel must extrude Kahane and Kaha ism in order to continue to Appeal to enlightened friends of Israel and of democracy. C Universal Preil fascinating questions raised by intelligence stories three intelligence stories have converged to raise fascinating questions. 1. In the Case of the ukrainian Seaman trying to defect near new Orleans did our National Security Agency in form the state department in timely fashion of what its big ear had Learned about the soviet embassy s instructions to drug the returned defector this has not yet come Oul the soviet Grain ship Cap Tain called his embassy on an open line. The embassy chewed out the Captain for allowing . Officials aboard and directed him to give the errant ukrainian who had Cut his wrist after being forced by inept customs officials to return a drug whose name sounded like amino Zin which they thought might make him Wood ily malleable. Despite evidence of soviet drugging of a Man attempt ing to defect the stale department let the russians have their Seaman Back. Where is the tape of the phone Call who at the state Duparl Mcnol heard it when 2. In inc Case of the revolving door Kab colonel Vitaly Yurchenko was inc Cia hoodwinked again into accepting the Bona fides of a planted defector when the Kab Man held his press conference the Cia inexcusably froze giving the russians a propaganda Field Day with a phony charge that one of their men had been kidnapped and tortured and had heroically escaped from a restaurant in Georgetown. Belatedly friends of the Cia Are fanning out All Over town to assure us that poor Vitaly was merely a heartbroken Lover rejected by a Sovil Diplomat s wife who was willing to play around with a Kab colonel but not a defector. Critics of the Cia say Ilia the Kab Man was not properly nurtured by his handlers and that if he had been pampered and loved would never have changed his both theories Overlook the fact that this spy is a trained liar who Long ago chose deception As a Way of life. In the grand tradition of Yuri Nosenko and fido both theories Overlook the fact that this spy is a trained liar who Long ago chose deception As a Way of life. Yurchenko was a fake defector. He came Over to diddle the director make our spooks look like saps and till late the Fri with dark hints about congressional aides. Presumably the fast talking spy has discredited polygraph tests for years to come. Task Force chief Colin Thompson should have Given him a rigorous sceptical debriefing and quarantined him on suspicion of carrying contagious disinformation. The slim pickings offered and the russian s failure to Supply the names of assets we know reported to him in Canada should have set off warning Bells instead he was embraced and touted in the worst example of Cia naivete since William Colby fired James Angleton and vouched for the planted Nosenko. No wonder so Many of us suspect that mole Burrow where orchids used to grow. 3. In the Case of halloween massacre ii " when 11 of inc 20 members of the president s foreign intelligence advisory Board were dismissed has an attempt been made 10 protect the Agency from too probing questioning the official reason for the head rolling at Pfab u that the Board had become unwieldy but in fact Fow appointees will soon be added Jane Kirkpatrick Gen. Bernard Schriever and professors Albert Wohl tet tar and James q. Wilson. Among the 11 put Over the Side arc economists Alan Greenspan and Martin Indef son adm. Thomas Moorer Gen. Robert Barrow professors Eugene Roslow and Paul Scabury Edward Bennett Williams and former ambassador Seymour Weiss. Weiss was supposedly bounced for speaking out too much at meetings which the chairman Anne Armstrong and his old adversary. Henry Kissinger must have found tiresome but actually because he Wil persnickety about Central american results. Wil Luiu now fired from the same Job by two presidents is i is to have interested himself in penetration of our Agen cies by the Kab. Some of those dropped arc no great loss turnover is healthy and 20 is too Many for a Board. But with the Mam Cia action in Nicaragua the possibility of a mole in t1sny% and Lac Agency just taken to the cleaners bythe Kab this seems hardly the time to be replacing Index Pendant minds like Weiss and Williams with Esti Mable academics who will take years to get up to Speed Nna with huge sums going for economic intelligence. It seems Odd to strip the Board evaluating the Quality of that research of its economists. ,.lnreilc a la Csc cases sets of the questions will become Ortch by the advice Yum Chunko says he offered nil worried 16-Ycar-old son if you really think about it of can always find a Way Oul of any c new York time
