European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday november 13, 1985 columns William Safire Hussein s trickery May give him a hold on Peres if preliminary private talks were under Way with Israel Jor Dan s King Hussein told my colleague Anthony Lewis on meet the press there is no truth whatsoever to this when asked in Jerusalem about similar talks their substance not reported to his partners in the israeli coalition govern ment. Prime minister Shimon Peres branded speculation about meetings to discuss West Bank sovereignly non neither of these gentlemen Wras telling inc truth. As Tom Friedman of the new York times has reported. Hussein met with Peres As he has secretly done in years past with other israeli leaders. I m told that on Friday. Oct. 4. Israeli diplomats were frantically trying to reach inc prime minister to get him to Call president Reagan directly lest he United Stales fail to veto a . Resolution to Brand Israel for the first Lime As an age Xor. Peres on u private Jet flying to Ris to meet Hussein was unavailable. What was More important in his memoirs Likely title two years is not Peres will explain that a Condi Tion of the meeting was total secrecy he Anthony Lewis will argue that falsehood is ethical in inc Pursuit of peace. What happened Ai the Peres Hussein fact to fact non meeting is now evident the King wanted Assurance that any negotiation would result in Arab takeover of Wisl Bank land to guarantee thai he wanted talks held under auspices thai included the soviet Union. The prime min ister knowing his liked partners w Ould not accept the loss of More land agreed anyway in return for the King s avoidance of direct Plo presence. True to his secret Deal Peres As Leader of the newest official aggressor Nalion. Declared in a . Speech his willingness to meet at an International forum reversing a stand Long held by Bolh Israel and the United states. Sure enough in an interview with Judith Miller of the new York times. The jordanian Monarch then hailed Peres As a Man of vision and a Bright Light in an area of darkness the darkness being his liked partners who were in deed in the dark about any Wisl Bank Giveaway. The world and Peres Ihnn waited for Hussein to deliver on his end of the Deal to arrange for palestinians to be rep resented by non extremists that meant finessing Yasser Arafat especially since he stood revealed to inc world As the perpetrator of the Achille Lauro terror. Wearing a Stern face and adding to the world pressure by signing a Surprise Friendship pact with inc Ami Arafat Syri ans. Hussein summoned inc discredited Arafat to Amman. Then we saw what happens when a Tough survivor comes up against a weak survivor. Arafat Lold Hussein where to gel off and the King s resolve collapsed. In the face of such angry resistance the smooth talking Monarch double crossed Shimon Peres last month jus As he Dou ble crossed George Shutlz in 1981. Not Only did the King succumb to Plo pressure he went along Wilh Egypt in assuring inc Plo that armed struggle terrorist attacks on jews is legitimate provided inc murder and Kidnap Ping is limited to Israel and docs not bloody inc territorial Waters of Egypt or the streets of Rome or Paris. Such treaty violation by Egypt teaches Israel thai land docs not buy peace although Hussein quailed in the pres ence of the Plo his secret personal diplomacy has compromised Peres. The Public offer to accept auspices that in clude inc soviet Union is on the Ubie now inc heat will be on Israel to accept inc Palms winians named by the Plo. As liked leaders see it pret plans to Lead Israel into a Geneva Confer ence Early a Cal year. Then he will reveal his territorial Deal condominium in Clavery whatever that his Unity government partners believe to be dangerous appeasement. In that scenario when the coalition Cabinet splits. Labor will seize he Opportunity to Call for new elections thereby slipping out of its agreement to rotate out of office next october. Will world Opin Ion rooting for the accommodating Peres his labor party might be Able to Over come the local opprobrium that Comet to politicians who Rind ways to break their word. Hussein sees thai. In such a forum soviet presence and his new syrian connections would assure the isolation of a race. The manipulative Monarch does not dare to take charge of palestinian arabs but his secret diplomacy May have Given him a hold on the prime minister of it Rael. Cd new Yor Tom i Meese s constitutional ideas come from ignorance attorney general Edwin a Csc has aroused much controversy with his ideas on How to read the Constitution but it is not really one of those grand constitutional debates thai periodically Mark our history. How do you debate a Man who advances a Radical theory and Ihnn. When challenged retreats in a fog of obfuscation and ignorance in a speech last summer. A desc suggested that inc guarantees of the Bill of rights should protect americans from re pression Only by the Federal govern Cal not the states. He said the supreme court decisions that since 1925 have applied essential proc Lions to slate action rested on shaky and suspect ground. He argued for what he called a jurisprudence of original judges thai is. Should interpret the Constitution by looking to Sec what its authors had in mind. Me Csc denounced acc Cal supreme court decisions Hal the firs amendment requires official neutrality Between religion and irreligion. He said thai idea would have struck inc framers As in messes constricted View of the Bill of rights had been followed Over the last 60 years most of the celebrated supreme court decisions proc cling our freedoms would not have happened. When that was pointed out. Inc attorney general quickly backed away from his thesis. Or rather he sent his Public relations Man. Terry Eastland. To do so. Eastland explained that inc attorney general did not actually mean anything by calling the basis of much supreme court doctrine Over the last 60 years suspect and he was merely describing a historical development in our constitutional then East land in a letter to the new York times appended a quotation from the late Felix Frankfurter. It stated Justice Frankfurter s Well known position that the 14lh amendment in limiting state deprivations of Liberty did not mean to apply exactly the same Lions that the first 10 amendments put on inc Federal government. Just what Eastland thought he was proving by this quotation is not Clear. Could he possibly have thought thai Frankfurter refused to protect in state cases such essentials As Freedom of speech & to h6r� a but Firitz you few by As Chat be Volch vow or religious neutrality Frankfurter was in fact a firm believer in the principle that Meuse derided As he read he first Amend ment s bar to an establishment of religion As strictly forbidding state Aid to religion. When the supreme court in 1947 upheld a new Jersey Law providing buses for children in parochial schools he dissented. But the attempt to enlist Frankfurter As a supporter of the Meese doctrine reveals a much deeper ignorance or disingenuous Ness. For Frankfurter s very fiber As a judge was opposed to the notion that one could find simple or automatic answers to Constitution Al questions in history or anywhere else. These provisions of the Constitution he said in 1955. Speaking of the 14th Amend ment s clauses were not calculated to give. a Auu Onward. Justice Holmes put to that ,. Provisions of cons dilution Are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form they arc organic. Ming institutions. Their signify i1" fun i0j 8alh�rcd nol simply a taking the words and a dictionary but by consist eng their origin and the i Etc of i her the one great acc Cal Justice who found. In this country More religiosity one might better say. He wants More govern ment Power to order people s lives. He Wurtle the courts to get out of the Way. How far that is from the conservatism of a Frankfurter from the cautions of t Man who had doubts about absolute Power Ashr did about All absolutes. For a radial Abs Tuisl like Meese to try to wrap him self in the Frankfurter Mantle is not pm wrong. It is indecent. C new York time a
