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20 TEXAS JEWISH POST, THURSDA Y, MARCH 15, 1990, FORT WORTH—IN OUR 44TH YEAR!
El Al Airlines Offers
Club Med Extensions
NEW YORK — Now
through April 30, El Al
Israel Airlines, as the of-
ficial carrier of Club Med,
will transport fun-seekers
“away from it all,” to a
four night get-away exten-
sion at either the Club
Med Village of Coral
Beach, Israel or the Manial
Palace in Cairo, Egypt.
The water is warm, and
the night life is hot at the
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Village located on the
southernmost tip of
Israel, in Eilat. A vaca-
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After Visit to Israel Democratic Party Chairman,
Ron Brown Reassured of Israel's Commitment to Peace
By David Friedman
WASHINGTON — Ron
Brown, chairman of the
Democratic National
Committee, has returned
from a visit to Israel
reassured about Israel’s
commitment to the peace
process, but also con-
vinced that the process
has to be speeded up.
Television “plays a sig-
nificant role in public
opinion,” and scenes of
clashes between Israeli
soldiers and Palestinian
youth in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip “are not
helpful, as far as making
friends,” Brown said at a
news conference with
several reporters from the
Jewish media.
“The sooner that kind
of situation can end, the
better,” Brown said. “I
think there is a clear un-
derstanding of that within
the Israeli leadership.”
Brown himself saw first-
hand evidence of this
when a rock was thrown
at his car as he was being
driven through the West
Bank. “You see the ten-
sion under which people
live every day,” he said.
This was Brown’s third
visit to Israel, but the first
in 10 years. He was in
Israel from Jan. 16 to 21
and then spent five days in
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Egypt. The trip was spon-
sored by the South Palm
Beach County Jewish
Federation.
The visit “really rein-
forced a lot of the feelings
I’ve had about Israel for a
long time,” Brown said.
These included his view
that the relationship bet-
ween Israel and the
United States should con-
tinue and that, while the
United States has influence
with Israel, “we cannot
deliver Israel to anybody.”
Above all, the visit
reinforced his concerns
about Israel’s security
needs. He said that no one
can tour Israel’s borders
without being “sen-
sitized” to its security
needs.
Brown said that before
going to Israel he had
heard rumors about the
Israeli government’s posi-
tion on the peace process.
“I looked Prime Min-
ister (Yitzhak) Shamir in
the eye in a one-on-one
meeting and asked him if
he is committed to the
peace process,” Brown
said. “He looked me back
in the eye and told me he
was. I take him at his
word.”
Brown said he also met
with Vice Premier Shimon
Peres and other Israelis,
who gave him a wide
range of opinion about
the peace process.
But he said he told the
Israelis, as well as the
Palestinians with whom
he met on the West Bank,
to “get away from some
of these peripheral issues
and get down to real
serious negotiations about
matters of substance.”
“My own impression is
that some of the things we
now hear are major stum-
bling blocks can be cir-
cumvented,” he said.
One issue Brown
believes could be solved is
the role that the Palestine
Liberation Organization
plays in the process if a
“practical, pragmatic,
realistic” approach is
taken.
“Almost everyone who
I talked to, even those
who are most vehemently
opposed to direct nego-
tiations with the PLO, ac-
knowledged that the PLO
has to be at least tacitly
involved,” he said.
“Nobody can be at the
table without PLO ap-
promised that Israel’s
defense contracts with
South Africa would be
phased out. Brown said
that he urged Shamir to
proval — if not a seal of announce a timetable and
approval, at least a wink.” was told later by Peres
and AIPAC officials who
met with Shamir that this
would be done.
Brown also believes
that Israeli objections to
the participation of East
Jerusalem Arabs in
Brown said the most en-
proposed Palestinian elec- ;0ya5]e ancj encouraging
tions can easily be over- part Qf his visit was going
come. He said they could
be considered as having
residences also on the
West Bank.
Brown said that in his
meetings with
Palestinians, “I assured
to absorption centers,
where he saw not only
Soviet immigrants, but
Jews from Ethiopia and
other countries. He said
he had a “wonderful ex-
perience” seeing adults
learn Hebrew and then
them that, as a civil rights vjsjting a classroom with
lawyer of long standing, I t children from the
have concerns about
two children from the
Soviet Union, two from
human rights, not only Ethiopia and one from
there but around the
world. The sooner we
resolve these difficult
issues, the better off every-
one will be.”
Morocco.
Brown praised the
Israeli political leaders for
“making their democracy
A reporter pointed out work.” He said they have
that when Lee Atwater, an “incredible amount of
chairman of the Republican energy and patience” in
National Committee, living with the unity
visited Israel last year, he government,
did not meet with Palestin-
ians or visit the West Bank. . .
This is not something
.... . . , he would like to see in the
I do not know how United States since it is
you can go to that region mQre e tQ overn when
of the world and not meet ®
Palestinians,” Brown one party 18 in charge‘
responded. He said the
Israeli government did not
object to such meetings
and that he was en-
couraged to meet with
Palestinians by leaders of
the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee,
who were in Israel at the
same time.
Brown would not give
his view on whether there
should be a Palestinian
state, saying that is up for
the parties to decide. He
noted that he had opposed
resolutions urging a
Palestinian state at the
Democratic National
Convention in Atlanta in
1988 and at state conven-
tions.
Brown said that he
brought up the issue of
Israel’s relations with
South Africa. He said that
members of the Con-
gressional Black Caucus,
who met with Shamir
when he was in Washing-
ton last year, told him
that Shamir understood
fully the intensity of
feeling on that issue in the
United States.
Shamir at the time
“But we Democrats
know a lot about coalition
politics,” he added. “We
are generally pretty good
at it.”
Brown said he has been
working hard at main-
taining the traditional
Democratic coalition, in-
cluding the support of
Jews. He has been viewed
with suspicion by some
Jews, because he was the
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
campaign manager at the
1988 convention.
“Nobody has spent
more time than I have
reaching out to the Jewish
community,” Brown said,
citing numerous ap-
pearances before Jewish
groups. “Every oppor-
tunity I get, I am reaching
out to the Jewish com-
munity, an extraordinarily
important constituency to
the Democratic Party.”
“I, as a chairman of the
Democratic Party who
happens to be of African
decent, have a unique and
special role to play in
seeing that the relation-
ship continues,” he said.
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