European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes William Safire Israel does t need an orthodox jew jihad1 Chicago Many jewish americans including most of Israel s strongest longtime supporters arc disturbed by 1hc Way a Cabal of orthodox poli Lien Rab Bis in Israel is making a grab for ecclesiastical exclusivity. At Issue is inc Cabal s at Cpl to arrogate to itself the authority to determine who is a jew that is to declare invalid for purposes of invoking Israel s Law of return All conversions to Judaism made in conservative and Reform synagogues. This would make a mockery of the Diaspora s tradition of diversity within Unity ii would sacrifice Israel s National Security on the Allar of religious rigidity. What most troubles most jews Here and in Israel is not that some orthodox leaders want their own form of papacy thai fantasy is nothing new but that the political leaders of the jewish state bickering for Voles in the Knesset to form a majority seem to be promising to Grant a demand that would infuriate jews everywhere. We have enough trouble with the Arab jihad vie Don t need one of our own. 1 write seem to be promising because it is All a charade. 1. King Hussein double crossed the labor parly s Shimon Peres in mid Campaign by removing his Jor Danian option the plan to give up the West Bank while avoiding the appearance of immediately setting up a f to stale acres s parly lost mandates a Clivous panics longtime allies of the liked gained. 2. Desperate to cling to office despite the voters rejection Peres offered the religious parties not Only Cabinet posts and More Aid to parochial schools but also support for a Bill to give them inc right to decide which conversions count for Many in effect who is a 3. The Politico rabbis then took thai offer to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir head of the right Wing liked. Shamir promptly matched inc unconscionable Labot put and bought the support of enough Voles to form a majority. 4. With this backing of inc religious parties Shamir got inc nod to form a government. He sent reassurance to jews around the world who arc Reform and conservative As i am Square because he now has a Choice of double crosses at hand. 5. Shamir could form his coalition with the religionists and dutifully put the who is a jew Bill be fore the Knesset calling for its support by like Daniks on pain of party discipline. However just the right number of right wingers would Call in sick that Day to allow the labor party members present to defeat the Bill. Promise ostensibly Kepi but Bill Defeated. 6. The Politico rabbis who surely know this is com ing Are prepared to demand Pla Calion for the failure to William f. Buckley or. A i think 111styfitblvffetl&ksb deliver in the form of no anything on the Sabbath or an end to archaeology or whatever. The liked could then try to govern at the Sufferance of unstable coalition partners with most israelis gelling annoyed and then angry. Move Back two Steps and examine another scenario 5. Shamir with the ability to form a government without labor in his pocket is now going to labor will a Deal if you agree to being Junior partner with your Tough Vilzak Rabin in a key Post and your Loose Cannon Peres Oul in the cold then together we can Reform the political system la make it More difficult for splinter parties to be Kingmaker. 6. At Rabin s urging and with the vocal support of jews from Jerusalem to Jamaica labor would accept thai liked offer. Thus the threshold of electoral Suc Cess would be raised the democratic majority would Rule and the presumptuous rabbinic Cabal would be foiled with finality 7. As part of the Deal taking Oul Peres Shamir would privately agree not to run again. Thai would leave David Levy mosh arcs and Ariel Sharon to com Pete 16 Lead the liked against Rabin s labor in the next election. The second scenario would be belter for inc slate of Israel not to mention inc development of such a rout of inc rabbis would require personal sacrifice by Peres who May prefer to hang grimly in is a political Zombie always losing never lost this is the moment thai inc Plo in Algiers chose to accept a partition plan forty years and five wars Loo Laic at this Rale in will adopt the Camp David accords in 2028. Thai Tempo izing is accompanied by a transition in Washington and by the overreaching by is Rael s own new righteous All three events Combine to give Israel a moment to regroup. Use thai precious by calling spell wisely. Form no just another government but a More off Clive Way of governing. Niyor Kimei Sqq Izarov program Star wars i was going up in the elevator at the Hilton in Washington from the lower lobby when suddenly 1 saw piling into the car Andrei Sakharov. The leading nuclear physicist in the soviet Union inventor of their Hydrogen bomb hero of the resistance. He was exiled to Gorky rehabilitated by Mikhail Gorbachev permitted last week for the first Lime to come to the United slates. We were introduced by his a clique of translators and guides and one supposes Kab agents. 1 could not detect in his craggy peasant face scar tissue from his harass Cal by the country he served so grandly but the fatigue. Wei Manifest. Indeed he had served notice on his hosts the ethics and Public policy Cen tar that he would need to catch a plane to Boston at 9 , since the program called for him to be introduced at 9 45 in Washington this was convulsive news to the planners. He pleaded pure and Sim ple overwhelming fatigue and it was palpable.1- when he got up to speak he was with out a single note in hand and a Youn woman expertly 1 Musl suppose trans lated what he said. Me paid great tribute to Edward Teller the Man who invented our Hydrogen bomb Slid Over completely the subject of human rights about which he had been invited to speak and went directly to make War on ski. It would be. Very costly. It would destabilize inc International balance ,., in would bring on temptations to Knock Down the other Power s satellites. This might mean nuclear War ,. The crowd was faced with a theatrical Challenge. They wished to applaud the. Man nol his message. The master of ceremonies attempted to articulate inc distinction. "."". /. When time came for or. Teller to speak also without not Sone could hear the tenderness he Felt for his oppo site number in the soviet Union. Al though by this Lime Sakharov was half Way to Boston somehow it was not appropriate to scold him. To do such a thing would be on the order of scolding Mother Teresa for coming Oul against the reformation. Bui in a half hour Teller carefully made his Points. The were that the great feature of the 20th Century is the acceleration of technology that in was the responsibility of a free people to probe Means of defending themselves. And then the Only raw nerve an allusion to what Andrei Sakharov might not know although the fore most physicist in the soviet Union he was years of his and in is just possible thai academician Sakharov docs not know what Progress has been made by the so Viet Star wars team or the Progress made by the . Star wars learn. The soviet Union has for the past four years at least spent $25 billion per year on set utilizing the services of .10,000 scientists. All of this is nol done in order to create Disneyland in space. What arc the responsibilities of the United slates Given Stakh Novite soviet activity in at tempting to launch creatures in the atmosphere thai would end our capability to deter two rumours Are floating in Washington. The first is thai Sak Fiaro was slipped in russian an exact account of Liow the United slates stands in its ski program i.e., factual data thai dissipate Many technical doubts about the capacity of ski in perform. On the basis of his knowledge of this Sakharov May in the future decline to say As indeed he declined to say last week that the whole was technologically implausible. And Ihnn most interesting of All in is speculated thai the reason inc Kremlin per mailed Sakharov to come to the United Stales has become Plain to influence Congress and to Harden the opposition to ski of so Many of our scientists who seem driven by ideological rather than factual give it As my own View of Sakharov that he is incapable of guile. The theory supposes Hal Gorbachev called him Inland said Andrei Dimitrievich Here s my i let you go to the United Stales and guarantee you the right of go there say your usual bit about human rights but stress your opposition Lodi. Of 1 cannot believe he d have participated in such a Deal. Bui what need was there Tor Gorbachev to make it Sakharov had already on several Occa Sions renounced ski for reasons As Gulli ble As those that dominate the thought of he committee for a sane nuclear policy. All he had to do was go to americ and speak and he would say what the soviets wanted him 10 say. There was Tobe sure the risk that someone would ask him what in the hell his government was doing with thai $25 billion per year. But thai question was not put to him not in Public w synth Etc
