European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Carl t. Rowan Israel image damaged by palestinian policy Israel is taking a. Terrible beating in world opinion these Days because or the reprehensible Mea sures the jewish stale uses to beat Down the palestini an uprising in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza strip. Worldwide audiences see Over and Over again the brutal beatings of Young palestinians who have thrown rocks and crude gasoline bombs to express their haired of the occupiers. Network reporters Tell daily of would be Little Davids throwing stones and being shot Down by Israel soldiers to audiences arc revolted to Sec a palestinian on inc West Bank talk of saving for a decade to build a Home Only 10 Leam that the israelis Are going to blow up his domicile because one of his children is accused or acting violently in inc palestinian uprising. Blowing up Homes some limbs 10 or More a week is Only part of a futile israeli policy of trying to use eco nomic punishment to break the heart of the palestini an Walchars find it repulsive to Sec that jewish settlers on the West Bank and in inc Gaza strip Are allowed to carry weapons to protect what Are called settlements in occupied areas thai they never intend to yield to arabs palestinians under any circumstances. These Are Salt Lars who clearly will use their guns ruthlessly against unarmed palestinians if any israeli government even hints at giving Samaria and Judea to he palestinians in Exchange for assurances that is Rael can live in peace. A perhaps a majority of israelis Are sick of War of the interminable acts of killing and terrorism retribution and revenge and they want to give Back land for peace Bui lame throwers like Ariel Sharon the for Mer defense minister who masterminded the tragic invasion of Lebanon is spreading fear. Sharon shouts that Israel has become morally weak and thai a palestinian state is being formed right before our very / -.-. he and others a to an environment of shared fanaticism. The israeli arrogance flows from the fact Hal . Money has made the jewish state the greatest military Power in the area and that the United states continues to give Israel More than s3 Bill Ion a year and shares vital intelligence secrets about Israel s neighbors with Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. There is no realistic pressure on Israel to care about Ellen Goodman world opinion even Hough the to screens show some people shouting that the israelis Are doing to he palestinians what the nazis did to the jews. The compari son is far fetched but in has enough substance to do grave damage to Israel s Long cherished reputation As a sensitive and humanitarian democracy. The. Picture emerging now is of an Israel Ihal has become so brutal an occupier that millions of Ameri can jews Are complaining. Members of Congress who previously would not dare to criticize or threaten Israel Are now saying that the s3 billion annual gift to Israel could be Cut drastically if Uherc is no movement to Ward peace. The reality is thai prime minister Yitzhak Shannir and his liked right wingers wan no peace that in i Volvo giving up the West Bank inc Gaza strip the Golan Heights lands they regard As Israel s historically but also As inc spoils of wars that Israel did t Start. But a Wiser israeli government would know Hal in is handcuffed by he Sharon and the fears the generate and that it invites troubles if it tells the. Armed to the Leith Wisl Bank and Oiher settlers Thal they must give up lands Long ago taken and now bonded to them emotionally. President Bush realizes we must Hope that this is still the area of inc world that offers the greatest threat of War and the area in which his leadership and pressure can produce the most meaningful movement toward world peace Mortti an�ries�n4ii�. He rung on Mother in coma May Wake up country the protesters arc gone now. hit team has wandered off in search of another target. The television Crews have moved to other Sites and other stories. The people who surround Nancy Klein these Days arc those who care about her. Not As a Case study or a Politi Cal focal Point builds a wife a daughter. A Mother her husband Martin visits with her As he has every Day since the 32 year old woman went into a coma. He la is her the simple things How his Day went what he. Did what their 3-year-old daughter did if some spark leads Nancy Klein out1 of the shadows of her coma her husband and Parent eventually also will Tell her How strangers tried to wrest control of her medical earn away from them. They will Tell her How these intruders men she had never met sued to become Guardi ans of her and her fetus to make Deci Sions about her life and death. 11 in Story of the Klein family by an dec 13 with a car crash that left this woman pregnant with her second child in it coma in the weeks that Fol Lowed doctors at the Long Island Hospi Tal told Martin Klein thai his wife might have a better Chance for recovery if she had an abortion. These doctors offered opinions rather than promises and Odds rather than certainties. Bui Nancy s family held to those opinions and pinned their Hopes on those Odds. The opted for the abortion. If this had been any other medical procedure there would have been no fur her delay 11 is virtually automatic to allow family to make decisions for an income Clell patient. This Hospital How Ever spooked by right to Lif Cre refused 10 perform an abortion without court permission. The administrators invited Irile remion and they got it. Two men anti abortion and vocals both came to Wrangle for Power Over the body of the comatose woman they had never Mel and have never Cyl seen their lawyer was a. Lawrence Washburn or. A regular in the Riehl to life Legal circuit. In 1984, in the famous baby Jane Doc Case Washbum was the one who sued to Force surgery on inc handicapped baby against the will of her parents. Since then he has represented More than one estranged husband trying to prohibit his wife form having an abortion. In june he was briefly appointed guardian of the fetus inside the body of a client s wife. Washburn eventually lost the Klein Case As he lost those others. After two bitter weeks three new York stale courts ruled that Only Martin Kucin was the proper guardian. After the supreme court refused to overturn Hal ruling inc abortion was performed. The crucial sentence in All of this Judi Cial mane vering came from the appeals court ruling thai stated unequivocally Hal these strangers had no place in the mid Srof this family tragedy All but inc most hard Core right to lifers in the country seemed to identify with the family and against the invaders. Even Barbara Bush came Oul of her is in acc on abortion not Only she but her husband sided with the kleins. "1 agree Wilh my husband on that said. The life of the Mother was Al Riski i m very grateful that in worked Oul Asil is the Klein Case then such an exception annals of abortion Hal even a pro life president and an ambivalent populace can separate it from the others 1 Don t read it isl Way. The question in this Case was not whether an abortion would save Nancy Klein s life. The medical evidence was less than conclusive sadly she is still in a coma. Whal was at stake in the court was who had inc right to make that de termination this is not some peripheral Issue in is the Central question of the entire Abor Tion debate who decides the answer of the anti abortion activists is Strang Martin Kucin eventually won inc right to choose abortion because his wife had that right. In was Prelec Ted in inc Roe Vii Wade decision. He was merely inc guardian allowed to exercise his wife s rights if abortion were illegal he might not have had that right. In is notable How much More support there was for he family of a comatose woman facing these decisions Ihan there might have been for the woman herself whal we have seen Here is a preview of what the world would look like if Roe is overturned a grave and imminent possibility. It s a world in which the Wash Burns would decide the Fate of the kleins and the Rusl of us. A world in which the government would become inc Guardi an of every Prog Nail woman of every Oclus. A world in which strangers would weigh the evidence of every Wom an s health and life. So 1 wish Nancy Klein a full recovery and a return to her husband and child. In a coma this woman May have helped to Wake up the country. The opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and ure in no Way to be considered As representing la views of the Stan and sort jews or the United Stales government
