European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Jim Fain Meese mirrors mentality morality of his Boss say this for de Melesc he s an olympic Clave Hanger on. It would Lake a crowbar to pry him Loose from his Satra Pyas the country s High sheriff. Since he mirrors both the mentality and morality of his Boss there d be no Point in tiring him for that matter. Washington has trouble grasping this futility. A devout believer in treating symptoms not their cause the capital chronically shouts for the Scalp of what Ever minor scoundrel is momentarily de facing the while House. Ii prefers to leave the Kingfish i ensconced behind his or manufactured popularity aside from inc injustice never a priority concern with either the president or the head of his Justice department it s simply not practical to dump Mccase. The indispensable lord High guardian of the Teflon shield he s been doing Reagan s laundry for 20 years. The Iran mantra affair is illustrative. Meese was he key player in the cover up lying initially about Reagan s involvement giving Ollic North and Fawn mall three Days to Complete thurr shred Ding keeping the Fri out in the critical first hours forgetting virtually every thing shout his lengthy conversation with Bill Casey when the magnitude of the scandal became apparent. Meese is so artless in his skulduggery and so blissfully unaware of the resultant Low comedy it s almost impossible to dislike him. Diek Cansian 10 the jowls he s the perfect or. Bumble for our time. The never ending theater of this Law n order thunderer under continuous investigation for Petty indiscretions with Money and influence makes the Point. From interest free House Loans to iraqi pipelines we be spent enough on special investigators to make a Down payment on the balanced budget Reagan promised. A larger irony is the hard line the at Torne 1 general keeps proclaiming while clothing himself in every constitutional Protection civil libertarians Pine for. The William Buckley Dow h1&? any you a via saw Nowlin us a Neadis drug rap a credit for a desc who cites his agility at escaping indictments As proof of fitness for High office is the same Meese who told . News & world report if a person is innocent of a crime then he is not a Meese was arguing at the Lime against the Miranda ruling which gives Legal rights to those suspected of crimes. You Don t have Many suspects who Are inno cent Meese declared. He of course. To the exception who proves Chr Nils his latest caper trying to Rush through appointments at Justice without waiting for Fri Field checks is turning into one of his belter burlesque fast As he can name them they either withdraw or the White Houk Luis hem Down. It s Robert Ginsburg All Over again. Meanwhile the department is Par Al Zed which considering its direction under de s Legal philosophy May be forthe Best. Not even Nancy who has the courage of her husband s convictions would tire this Man. He s inc Cardinal of the Reagan Raj keeper of the flame a True movement conservative with pursed lip conscience far everyone except himself and his friends. Typl t As it should do. Me Csc is the perfect Emblem of Freedom under Law us Reagan interprets it. His beaming face ought to decorate our coins and Stamps. His portly statue should replace the blindfolded my on courthouses from the Bronx of Wedah to inc san Francis co of e. Robert Vallach As eternal re minder of How Justice was folded in he reign of Ronald Reagan. Americans should get involved in israeli policy there has been much commentary celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of Israel. And not entirely ceremonial Given the crisis of the occupied territories. No one has spoken More tre chantly than Amos Elon on "60 Amos Eton s credentials As an enthusiastic citizen of Israel arc quite simply unimpeachable. He is of course a renowned author israelis fathers and sons and intellectual. Of special interest viewing him on "60 minutes was the gravitas he brought to the question. One imag Ines that that was the Way Seneca the lawmaker must have looked ardent but composed fluent without being facile deeply Paine and yet determined to re capture a dream he Felt was slipping through israeli lingers. Eton began by telling interrogator Harry Reasoner that it was nonsense for americans particularly jewish americans to Lake the position that they should keep their hands away from israeli policy. Israeli policy said Elon is very much a matter of concern to Ameri Ca in part because we Are the critical sponsors of the nation of Israel in part because we have Tor that Rea son a critical responsibility to use our Good offices Ardour muscle to encourage humane israeli policies. The trouble with Many american jews said Elon is that having conquered their environment and won a secure place in the american Ircne they live like wasps but vote like puerto h is too much the fashion to suppose that because a policy is sanctioned by the government of Israel it is a policy that should evoke loyalty from jews around the world. Amos Elon seated behind his desk in Israel told his vast audience that under existing policies Israel faced one of two futures i really do not see that there is a third one future is the transformation of the area into one More Lebanon which is what would happen if Israel annexed the West Bank and the Gaza strip. The second alternative which is a continuation of present policies occupation and suppression would mean simply that Israel had be come another South Africa with one Law for citizens of one race a second Law for others. To go in either of these directions Elon said is to abort the dream that guided the founding of Israel. Elon touches on the most critical Point when he reminds us that he constant stress on israeli democracy can be deceptive. Sure Fie says Israel is a democratic country and the Arab states arc not. But what if. Under the Rubric of democracy policies Issue thai have the Quality of despotic and totalitarian regimes Israel has certain problems Manifest in the split Between labor and the liked and the representation within the or but of such abusive movements As Meir Kahane s party which forthrightly declares the palestinians to be aliens who should be deported. Those Are parliamentary problems mined up with proportional representation and other democratic kinks. But the special problem railed by Elon it the ten Dency 10 ideology be democracy to the Point of commit Ting oneself to assume thai thai which democracy brings Forth is deserving of Universal support. We have in the United states at the moment a vigorous move ment hat asks for Jesse Jackson for president. It is All but inconceivable that the Jackson movement will pre Vail but what if it did and if in a few years he did to the Economy what Juan Feron did to Argentina a and to our foreign policy what Leon Blum s popular front government did for France would we in virtue of having fastidiously enacted All the disciplines of demo cratic government have earned the respect of civilized israelis a profound Point received with special hospitality in these quarters Given my own planted Posi Tion namely that it is More important to ask what a society votes for than docs a society have the Vole. And the despair of Elon and Many others is that in America Here is not nearly so emphatic a division on Israel s policy in the occupied territories As there a within Israel itself. For that reason Elon and so Many other feel isolated and evidently resentful resentful that the Root question of loyalty to Israel should be so heavily identified in the United Stales As support for what Ever Israel does. One listens to Al Gore or. For a hair hour and becomes convinced that if Israel set up extermination Camps for palestinians Gore would applaud at least if conducting a primary Campaign in new York cily son s Jeremiah tarries special strength drawing u it docs on israeli history one hears inc sympathetic detonations reaching Back to the old testament of that my head were Waters and mine eyes a Fountain of tears that i might weep Day Ami night for the slain of the daughter of my people
