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VOLUME 47 NO. 37
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1993 27 ELUL 5753
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JESS JA WIN: Another Milestone
How well we remember that historic day in March, 1979, when
we were gathered on the White House lawn with more than a
thousand guests to witness the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian
Peace Pact. The Talks had started at Camp David, President
Jimmy Carter’s retreat the previous year. Shuttling from one
nation's isolated cabin to the other’s, President Carter
played an important and vital role in bringing the two
together.
Anwar Sadat, who previously had collaborated with Hitler (as
had his former boss, Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser) had taken
inventory and gone to Jerusalem with a hand out-stretched for
peace. ^
He was welcomed and the peace Agreement, still in force,
paved the way for new areas of cooperation between Israel and
Egypt.
Wrthin a short time after Sadat attached his signature to the
document, the Arab terronst/fundamentalist factions put a price
[on Sadat’s head and he was gunned down in Cairo while
reviewing a military parade
We visited Cairo within a few weeks after that happened and
wondered about ths price this Nobel Prize winner paid for his
JESS JAWIN p. it
White House Lawn Scene
Of Historic Peace Pact
Temple Emanu-ETs Rabbi Sheldon
Zimmerman Attends Peace Signing
Rabbi Sheldon
Zimmerman, Se-
nior Rabbi of
Temple Emanu-
E1 and President
Central Confer-
ence of American
Rabbis, attended
the Israeli-PLO
joint recognition
signing cer-
Rabbi Zimmerman, be-
fore leaving, spoke on be-
half of the CCAR He said:
“As members of the Central
Conference of American
Rabbis, the oldest and larg-
est rabbinical organization,
representing 1700 Reform
rabbis in the United States
Rabbi Shafdon
Zhnmwman
and Canada, we greet with
great joy, hope and anticipation
emony at the White House on the announced agreements be-
Monday morning. *— ZIMMERMAN p. 19
More than 2,500 invited guests
besides a limited press corps gath-
ered on the White House lawn to
witness the signing of a peace ac-
cord between Israel and die PLO-
Palesimians. Headliners were
Yitzhak lUbin, who proclaimed
:ion Sunday that he had
:viously “met Arafat," the
jR5te PLO.
Arafat, who had been barred
from the United States because he
considered by the U.S. as "an
to terrorism” will take
headline position with Rabin on
the stage set. The table to be used
for the official signing is the iden-
tical table used for the 1979 Peace
Agreement between Israel and
Egypt which was signed by Egyp-
tian President Anwar el-Sadat, Is-
raeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin and President Jimmy Carter.
The pact culminates nearly a
century of conflict between the
early Jewish settlers who started
to buy swamps from the Arab,
feudal chiefs in the latter part of
the 19th century. The swamps were
drained and rejuvenated to a land
and honey" as the bible
predicted. The Arab feudal land-
lords fomented hate between Jews
and Palestinians when they told
their tenants that the cause of all
their troubles were"the Jews."
The agreement was secretly ne-
gotiated mainly in Norway while
the two participants used the Wash-
ington negotiations as a screen to
cover the real talks.
Reports have been circulated for
years that many Israeli govern-
ment officials have been meeting
secretly at various times with
Arafat and some of his leaders.
Secretary of State Warren Chris-
topher, who had picked up the
leash on the talks when the Bush
Administration and former Secre-
tary of State James Baker III left
office, has denied that the United
States has played a major role in
the talks even though Foreign Min-
ister Peres had urged him to admit
it. J
Reasoning was that Peres wanted
to have a diplomatic back-up to
in Israel
ment
g on
assuage any ill feeli
for entering into the
with Arafat.
President Clinton,
radio from Houston this
end said: On Monday, Is
the PLO will come to the
House to sign a courageou
histone peace accord, the fi
to replacing war with
giving the children of the
East a chance to grow up
normal life...we’re living i
lutionary times.”
Israel's Deputy Foreign Minis-
ter Yossi Beilin said: "The meet-
ing and signing with Aralht Will be
important because Arafat is a very
difficult symbol for us. Arafat is a
very important and significant bar-
rier, which among other things,
has been his own personality.
That’s why, on one hand, it is very
difficult to sign an agreement with
him but on the other hand, signing
an agreement with the man him-
self, who is the personification of
the enemy, is perhaps the most
important thing to do."
News Analysis: American Jewish Groups
Approach Middle East Changes Cautiously
By Larry Yudebon
NEW YORK, (JTA) —
When Israeli Foreign Minis-
ter Shimon Peres secretly
briefed Secretary of Stale
Warren Christopher last
month about the proposed
accord with the Palestinians,
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Christopher wanted to know:
Are the American Jews on
board?
It is a question with pro-
found implications for the
peace process. American
Jews have long provided a
key channel for promoting
Israeli policy in this country
and tempering U.S. policy in
the Middle East.
They are now faced with a
change in that policy.
Whether and how they
choose to support it will not
only affect the outcome of
the negotiations, but could
dramatically change the na-
ture of the organized com-
munity itself and its relation-
ship with Israel.
At their meeting, Peres
assured Christopher that he
had already briefed the lead-
ership of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations.
It has been no secret that
Christopher and other Ameri-
can policy-makers have been
mindful of the American
Jewish reaction to architects
of every Middle East peace
accord until now: From
Henry Kissinger to Jimmy
Carter to George Bush, the
American Jewish response
has been to “throw the bums
out."
This, despite the gratitude
in Israel for the American
role in bringing about the
1991 Madrid peace confer-
ence, the 1978 Camp David
accord and earlier disengage-
ment agreements.
The current American ad-
ministration was so con-
cerned over domestic fall-
out, in fact, that it refused a
request from Israel and the
Palestinians to play the part
of heavy in the ongoing peace
negotiations, according to a
report in The New York
Times.
Had the Americans been
willing to appear as if they
were imposing an accord on
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