European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 7, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13 commentary Andrew j. Glass there was a time when insiders would say that arabs and jews would live in peace Only when Israel came to be More a Middle  by that they meant that a semitic tide from such places As Iraq or North Africa would in time strip Israel of its european look and so make it fit More readily into the Region. Things did not quite turn out that Way. When the near Eastern sons of Shem did return to the land of their fathers the if hearts were set More heavily against arabs than those of the europeans who came before them. And now with an influx of soviet jews israelis ethnic Scales once again have begun to tip toward Europe. Instead it is the Arab elites who have become More westernized a the real change that made peace Hopes soar. Syria has been told by its one time Patron in Moscow that their old Deal is Over. When the soviet River ran dry warm words began to flow from Damascus to Washington. George Bush wants to go Down in history As a president who not Only can win a War but also Lay the ground for a True peace. At the risk of seeming crabby in be got my doubts. There Are two chief agents in this  is the travelling . Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii. The other is Bush a pen pal in the Kremlin Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The train is leaving the station Gorbachev tells his old clients. And for now America sits in the engineers seat. That puts Baker somewhat in the same spot As the matchmaker in a tiny Village deep in the polish forests who once sought to marry off the rabbits son to a member of the British Royal family. While the rabbi saw some Merit in such a link neither the Mother nor the grandmother would hear of it. Bit by bit the matchmaker wore them Down. True the Princess Wasny to jewish and  speak yiddish. But she did live in a Palace and was Worth her weight in Gold. So at Long last the two Village women gave their  Wickering peace Little by Little in Middle East ymenia6ked or hour help in settling the palestinian problem this 1gnt exactly what 1 Hap in mind. Yitzhak a Well that a half the Battle a the matchmaker said. A a we re taking everything in bite sized chunks a Baker tells scribes As his air Force Jet streaks from Mongolia to Moscow touches Down in Tel Aviv and takes off again for Arab lands among the chunks still too big to be eaten is the idea of land for peace. This will be the first demand from the syrians if the talks that Jerusalem has touted for Yeap do in fact occur. It could also be the syrians last word. Land for peace ended in the Sinai desert israeli hard liners aver. We took Syria s High ground in hard Battle and we mean to stay they Tell the Ever hopeful Baker. No amount of Gold no number of peacekeepers can change that they say. Time will Tell. Israel needs big Loans to pay Tor the Upkeep of incoming soviet jews. It also needs to join the european Market to ensure its future Prosperity. Whatever is said in Public Washington wants payment in kind for All favors. Yet the real problem lies elsewhere. Jews and arabs have lived for so Long viewing themselves As victims that they have a hard time seeing themselves As anything else. Maybe a new generation of israelis and arabs can learn to think differently. However unlike their grandparents most of these Young people show scant interest in each other s language and culture. That makes it even harder to Bridge the Gap before the current Chance for Healing evaporates. C Cox nows service Nunn off course with missile defense plan in the summer of l%7, China unexpectedly exploded a Hydrogen device. That september Robert Mcnamara the Secretary of defense announced that the Johnson administration would deploy Sentinel a a a think missile defense against the possibility of a chinese attack. Twenty four years later president Bush and president Mikhail s. Gorbachev signed the first nuclear arms reduction treaty Between the United states and the soviet Union. That same Day july 31 of this year the Senate approved 60-39, another a a think missile defense this one to guard against an accidental launch by the soviets or attacks from third world countries. In 1967, Mcnamara insisted publicly that Sentinel was not the first step to a a a thick nationwide missile defense. Privately he hoped the a a think system would delay and perhaps prevent deployment of a nationwide missile defense a then heavily favored in Congress but opposed by the  in 1991, in contrast. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., prime sponsor of the new version of Sentinel concedes that a eventually it could grow into a defense of All 50  a Quarter Century and three strategic arms treaties after Sentinel it Well May be asked what has happened to make necessary either another a a think missile defense or the possibility of its expansion into a a a thick system Nunn replies that As separatist tension rises within the Jerry built soviet Union Moscow May not be Able to control its nuclear Arsenal and that intercontinental ballistic missiles soon will spread to the third world. And of course accidents have been a threat since the beginning of the missile Era. Are these possibilities so real As to justify spending $10 billion to $15 billion a Nunns estimate a on a new Sentinel two decades after the vestiges of the old system were abandoned As ineffective and unnecessary what advances in missile defense technology would guarantee the new systems effectiveness against intercontinental ballistic missiles not lumbering limited Range scuds ? is Iraq or Syria or Libya or some disgruntled soviet general really so Likely to launch a missile strike on the United states that Washington must seek to renegotiate the anti ballistic missile treaty with the soviets As Nunn says he wants to do and Why did no to the missile accidents he cites in 1986 and a earlier in the 1980s,�?� make it necessary then to build the defense he advocates now the overriding argument against missile defense a made by Mcnamara to the soviet prime minister Aleksei Kosygin As far Back As the so called a a Summit at Glassboro n.j., in 1967 is that it weakens deterrence. Nunn argues that his new defense plan would a be kept Well below a level that would threaten this  Quot but How is the soviet Union or China or any other country to be sure of that particularly if the single missile site now proposed May be  a National defense system and though it is to be ground based rather than space based As is Ronald Reagan so Star wars a research and development on the latter would continue. The combination can Only enhance soviet suspicions that the United states is turning from deterrence to defense a an incentive to improve the soviet offence As Well As its defense now limited to Moscow. By causing a false sense of Security the new Sentinel May weaken . Efforts for further arms reduction. Nunn Points out that the soviets will retain about 8,000 nuclear weapons even after the strategic arms reduction treaty signed last week a and so will the United states. Surely the greater Security for both lies not in the chimera of missile defense it it in continuing efforts to reduce weapons Levels a and incidentally the likelihood of accidents. As for third world threats Nunn wants a missile defense to be supplemented by efforts to a strengthen lax. Controls on arms exports and pressure the worlds leading missile makers a including China North Korea and the soviet Union a to Hall their  Why  such diplomacy be relied on alone particularly if the United states improved its support of the nuclear non proliferation treaty that document pledges Washington to seek a comprehensive nuclear test Bun a which instead it res Bis. Now the Senate would have us ignore the lessons of the past to deploy an unnecessary perhaps ineffective missile defense building new weapons even As we and the soviets destroy old ones. T he cold War military mania seems to be turning into paranoia. A c the ni.?/v York times