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October 12,1989
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By Galit Dafny
Mubarak's statement after his ity Council Resolution 242 that
both the Soviet Union and the
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U.S. cancels funds for Israeli school
on demand of two major house leaders
Nicoletta Pisano’s column, Random Thoughts
on Relevant Topics, will be found on Page
Twenty-Four in the Arts in Houston section.
has cancelled a grant of one and
one-half million dollars that had
been allocated to an Orthodox
Jewish institution in Israel; the
Author's note: Special thanks to
Ajlah Aborochen for all of his time
talks. Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin has found merit in Mubarak's
intercession. That Israel's Cabinet
in effect rejected the Mubarak
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WASHINGTON - Bowing to the
demand of two of the most pow-
erful members of the House of
Representatives, the Agency for
COEXISTENT
IN ISRAEL
WASHINGTON, - Blocking the
start of talks between Israel and
Arab inhabitants of the West Bank
and Gaza to establish elections in
those territories is the insistence
of the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization to represent the Arabs
in those talks whether openly or
in some disguised form.
Egypt's President Hosni Mu-
barak, supported by the United
States and most of the Arab
world, has injected what is being
wrongly called merely support for
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's
plan when in practical matters the
Egyptian's ten points fundamen-
tally form a substitute for it. Core
of the ten-point plan is the PLO's
role although it is not mentioned.
also invited Arens but on condi-
tion that deal with the PLO. Arens
naturally rejected the invitation.
Without a meeting of minds be-
tween Mubarak and Shamir, or at
least talks, the Egyptian's peace
offensive is unlikely to win as long
as Likud has a political edge with
Israel's voters. Secretary of State
James Baker's proposal for a com-
mission composed of the U.S.,
Egypt and Israel to decide on the
Palestinian delegation also ap-
pears doomed. The Shamir view
that only inhabitants of the terri-
tories can decide on their repre-
sentatives appears solidly correct.
Furthermore Israel is the lone
authority in the territories under
the famed United Nations Secur-
ers and do not question religious
authority. They believe that good
people are reincarnated in new-
born children and evil people en-
ter the bodies of animals.
Outsiders are not allowed to
Shamir and other Likud leaders.
Bush has rhet with Mubarak four
times this year and Shamir once.
At the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, Bush met
'Shamir's political foe, Peres, but
not with Foreign Minister Moshe
ment. Its program is designated J
for equipment, school labora-
tories and classroom, supplies.
of the Foreign Affairs Subcom-
mittee for Europe and the Middle
East and the Appropriations For-
eign Operations Subcommittee,
respectively, caused the cancel-
lation.
AID was told by Hamilton and
on whatever business, General
Ariel Sharon was ignored.
Such treatment of Likud leaders
and favoritism for Labor's is not
without precedent. Former Sec-
retary of State George Shultz prac-
ticed the same tactics to induce
division within the Israeli Cabinet
in hope of lowering Likud's posi-
tion with Israel's electorate and
thus gain support for his views on
how to proceed with an Arab-
Israeli settlement. ______________________
Similarly, Mubarak has shunned
Role for PLO blocking way to talks
VMer 242, Israel is lone authority
in territories till Arabs make peace
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its proposals on how funds are
allocated. AID thereupon for-
warded the allocated Sha Alvim
grant to the U.S. Treasury.
Obey and Hamilton in July had
put a "hold" on allocations for
the fiscal year 1989 that ended
Sept. 38 on three institutions in
Israel - Sha Alvim, Ma chon Alte
Institute in Safed - that is to' re-
ceive $1,500,000 and Or Hachaya
Girls College in B'nai Brak that is
slated for $500,000. —
In their recent procedure that
Mohammed Adruzi declared a
new prophei, Abu Ell MfWtVF
(Alchachem).
They are religiously covert, and
their secretiveness also extends
within themselves. Only the reli-
-gious leaders have full knowledge
of the Druze faith; the rest of the
Druze people consider them-
‘selves to be the ignorant follow-
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between three countries: Israel,
Syria and Lebanon. They tend to
side with the government that
controls their land. The political
problems between the three
countries are tearing apart this
culture. '
The Druze living in Israel con-
sider themselves to be Israeli.
They are the only minority who
serve in the army. They are nei-
ther M uslims, nor Arabs, but a dis-
meeting with President Bush,
Oct. 2, at the White House said
the talks' to establish elections
would be without pre-conditions
but he wants at least two repre-
senting the PLO in them. Shamir
sees this condition as opening the
door to the PLO. In the Cabinet,
Finance Minister Shimon Peres
leans towards allowing deported
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United States have signed.
Under that resolution, as former
Undersecretary of State Eugene A
Rostow has pointed out recently,
Israel is vested with the authority—-
towns and border settlements.
U.S. policy bars use of Al D funds
in the territories. In FY 1986, Sha
Alvim received a grant of
$400,000. The other two institu-
tions did not previously receive
funds.. Their sponsors are Or
Hachayim Inc. in New York and
Machon Alte'Congregation in
Brooklyn.
Pending in federal district court
in New York since February 1988
is the American Civil Liberties
Union's lawsuit alleging that AID'S
program for American Schools and
Hospitals Aboard has violated
the separation of church and state
provisos. ACLU named Roman
Catholic and Jewish schools in its
charges. The ACLU said in 1985
allocated the American College
of Belz in Israel a grant of
$500,000 allegedly without refe-
rence to a review process. From
1980 to 1984 grants asked for
Belz had been refused. The 1985
grant reportedly was made on the
recommendation of Senator Al-
fonse D'Amato {R-NY) Both
. D'Amato and Senator Robert W.
Kasten Jr. (R-Wis), who report-
edly supported the grant for Sha
Alvim, are on the Senate Appro-
priations Government Operations
Subcommittee.
AID'S 1989 program listed 43
institutions to receive $35 mil-
lion. The 43 were culled from
close to a hundred applicants.
Among those said to have sought
support for them were Senators
Jesse Helms (R-NC), Albert Gore
Jr. and Jim Sasser, both Tennes-
see Democrats; Daniel Inouye
(D-Hawaii) and Reps. Dante Fas-
cell (D-Fla) and Frank Annunzio
(D-III).
AID appears to be in constant
cross-pressure from members of
Congress on allocations to insti-
tutions with friends and foes in-
is prime minister._________________ish culture and values together tervening. The agency is thus put
The Soviet Union also I* using with American democratic aims in a position of seeking direction
the antl-Ukud tactic. The Kremlin and develops a corps-of male—tvom Congress to avoid entanget-
invited Peres to Moscow and he scholars, educatorandi
concept by its tie vote was not . Sha Alvim Teachers College in
unexpected, Labor and Likud be- Aylon Valley.
ing precisely divided. A letter to Al D's acting admin-
That the Bush Administration istrator, Mark Edelman, from
wants Mubarak to succeed is evi- Reps. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) and
denced in part by its treatment of • David Obey (D-Wis.), chairmen
ministers traditionally are re- Fund elsewhere and warned they
ceived at the State Department "may well object if changes are
whenever they are in Washington not made in the coming year" on
Shamir. The Israeli invited the came to light Oct. 10, they lifted
Egyptian for talks last December their hold on two of the institu-
and again in March. There was tions, thereby permitting them to
opportunity last April when both get grants, but not on Sha Alvim
were in Washington. Shamir also that was described in a press re-
offered to meet him in New York port as an institution to train rab-
during the UN sessions. Mubarak bis who would teach in the West
always said no. Instead, he host- Bank. Sha Akim's American spon-
ed Peres and Rabin in Cairo, sor, Touro College in New York
Mubarak had said peace could City, said in Its application for the
not be reached as long as Shamir grant, that the school teaches "Jew-
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partake in the Druze faith because though there are several differ^
they do not believe in conversion*. ences. They have no sympathies
One is Druze solely by birth. The for the Arabs, and many have died
Druze are very loyal to the-ruling and fought for Israel's security,
government and try to interact All they desire is respect, equali-
with the rest of local society. ty in the armed forces and Israeli
The Druze people concentrate society and Israeli awareness of
themselves in the Hermon and Druze dedication for the Jewish
Galilee mountains. Because of state.
previous mandates and wars, the "We are all for one and one for
Druze people have been divided . all."
to administer the territories until
the Arab states of the region make
a just and lasting peace. Israel
may consult with others about the
modalities of the election, but
holding the elections is its sole
reponsibilities as the only legiti- ______ ________________n ________________ . __________-
mate governmental authority in tinct and separate ethnicity and
the area.-- — The Druze followers belong to religion. Druze children attend
Thus far only Egypt has made asecret.faith; documentation of Israeli schools and belong to the
peace, cold though it has been their religious practices It non- same sports and extracurricular
despite Mubarak's ten years as existent. They are open and organizations, like BBYO’s Israeli
president. Other Arab states pur- friendly socially, but because of sister youth organization, Noar
sue usual zeal against the "Zion- previous ostracism for their be- lenoar. Though there are several
ist entity". Mubarak's points in- liefs, they remain silent. The Druze social problems when Druze stu-
dude conditions that would en- people are integrated citizens of dents first enter an Israeli class,
hance the PLO's intrusion in the Israel, attend Israeli schools and all prejudices are cast aside when
territories serve in the army. the different children get to know
The Druze religion began each other.
"It would be suicidal," Ros- around the 11th century in Egypt. One of the Druze complaint*
tow wrote in Commentary maga- The first believers belonged to about Israeli society is that many
zine, for the Israelis to remove the Shi'ite Muslim sect until they disregard their presence in Israel,
one soldier from the territories (a broke away from Islam when Essentially, Israelis know nothing
Mubarak point) until the con- Mohammed Adruzi declared a about their people. They feel that
ditions of Resolution 242 aremetnew prophet, Abu fti M ansur ismeHflOdkupdn thent a* second"7
and "foolhardy" to share the re- (Alchachem). class citizen*, regardless of their
sponsibility for the election with They are religiously covert, and equality by law. In the army they,
any other country or institution." their secretiveness atso extends are forbidden to fight in certain
divisions. The Israeli Defense
Forces have such rules to prevent
Druze from killing their own peo-
ple during a war or raids on enemy
territory. This is an understood
and accepted practice, but many
Druze soldiers feel cheated from
ranking positions in the army.
The Druze people feel very
comfortable living in Israel and
interacting with Israelis even
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