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CONFUSION SEEBIS to be a key word in - the Middle East these days. What exactly do the sides want? In particular, what is American policy aimed at?
Not chear, according td reports from Washington. The Administration, it was said, was having second thoughts, probing new options.
The real issue, observers in Jerusalem were suggesting, was what Washington had promised Cairo when it began its latest
initiative. The Labor Federation's Davar felt that the dtilemma now facing the UiS. was of its own making. It had signed a promise sory note about getting Israel to wittidraw, without Israel's knowledge and, without' eltfier die means or the will to implement it.
How could the mess, then, be disentangled? Washington wanted Israel to set out frontiers she would consider secure so that the   U.S.   could  in   turn seek
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Egyptian territorial concessions. While Davar was against detailed delineations, the principles of Israeli thinking on withdrawal on the lines of the "Times" interview could be given.
, One. veteran Israeli political correspondent reported a Government inclination to talks of such principles in' contacts with the . Americans. There were no differences, he reported, on the essential need for an Israeli presence at Sharm-el-Sheikh the igateway to Israel's suthernmost ^ port, Eilat. ;
In an interview Cabinet Minister Shimon Peres felt there was no ' need to go into great detail at present. Sinai, he told Haaretz, gave protection to, or threatened two waterways — the Suez Canal, which is vital to Egypt, and the Straits of Tiran which Israel could not forego. Therefore the starting point in regarding any territorial settlement, should be^security 6f tihtese two passageways. The issue, ' therefore^ was not mere division \ of immovable property. Peres conceded that Israel could be confronted with the argument that an international peace force with special arrangemehts>(in contrast to 1957) could watch over the Straits. But what about the possibility of choking off the waterway at other spots along its length? Would the force be ready to act whenever freedom of navigation was interfered with along the line?
THE STRONGEST BLAST against the idea of guarantees and a peace force, came from a former senior Israeli army officer. General (res.) Matityahu Peled. Directing his shafts at the Israel government as well, Peled warned that if Jerusalem gave in on this issue it would be, in his terms, a "catastrophe, unlike any we have known since the establishment of the State." Peled listed these basic reasons:
The Soviet units in the force would gradually expand. They would never leave. The US detachments however, would, in his view, bei withdrawn in the wave of isolationism which would engulf America in thei/coming years. 'Russian influence i!^ouId grow Moscow's say in the area was law. Israel's idependence on Russia would grow steadily and inevitably she would become a Soviet satellite. Finally the regime in Israel would pass to those elements ready to accept Soviet hegemony.
Far-fetched? Peled asks. Not so, if one regards the history of the nations adjacent to the Soviets. The U.S. never had the capability, knowledge, nor the will to prevent •these countries coming under Soviet influence. (The exceptions meant a military dictatorship as alternative — Turkey, Greece.)
Peled urged the Israel government to abandon many of what he called the formulas that had struck root in Israeli policy. The question was, which was mbre_
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preferable? Egyptian or Russian forces along Israel's borders? Territory was no longer important. A peace agreement with Egypt, the transfer of areas settled now by the Palestinian Arabs to the inhabitants, would give greater security, provided Israel made it a clear condition tiiat foreign forces would have to be out. Peled was certain that Egypt would agree.
bi Haaretz, Eliezer Livneh saw similar dangers both for the Americans and Israel, but drew different conclusions. Withdrawal, at American initiative, meant the abandoning of all the area" to foreign in^rest, and war would inevitably follow. America hoped to weaicen the Soviet grip by getting Israel to pull back. But this was an illusion. And a Soviet victory in a war against Israel under cover of Egyptian forces would be an American failure of global proportions.
Taking the continued Russian presence in the area as axiomatic, A. Shweitzer believes that the most urgent need now ^ is readiness by Israel to define its political and strategic objectives, in conduction with the U.S. Rogers' demand for a map was basically justified, since co-operation between Washington and Jerusalem could mean that the U.S. would one day have to risk a confrontation with the Soviet Union.
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Israel, too, should be interested in American support for her aims. And a map was surely only one element of national objectives, A state is not the sum of its borders alone. All aspects — social form, culture, standard of living, security — should be aired in full, with the Americans.
America, in turn should make it clear to the Arabs that she would stand by Israel in any armed conflict, though it was hot certain that even this would deter the Egyptians from seeking a military solution.
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