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(N THE '[NIVERSITY Bron PEME mm LAND OF PEACE by Joseph M.J. Sanlei

I"Mat we nay have peace in the land of the Prince of Peace". So ended the statefient by the represent- ativeV-te-L'thezmited Natims if} mo Tamil ‘ of tie-Palestinian " Liberation Organization (P10), a1 the occasion of” the final day of the presidency of Anb. Yang, in the U.N. Security. Council. Anb. chg, of the United States of Anerica, had already tendered. resignatim of his positim to the Presi— knt Of the United States and it has been accepted. Mb- Yomq resigned under pressure fran the White House and ‘U.S.State Department following dis— closure of his having ‘ committed a diplomatic blunder in neeting privately with Rep. Terzi‘of. the PID at the Mission of Kuwait a few wede's before. It is the official poqu of

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’ the U.S.A. not to deal '

with P10 representatives and anyone in the enploy

of the Anerican governneit who disregards this directive will, rightfully, be summarily dismissed from his or her pcsitim. films the dismissal (resignation) of Andy Young is not a matter 'of ccntenticn. As a Repay— lican, I would have ‘ v gleefully bid farewell to ‘ mdy the day after his appointment to the U.N. (31d look forward to, with even greater anticipatim, saying goodbye to his forner boss) . .Anb. Young repeatedly had been, throughout his brief, but insignificant Career: an anbarrassment to the mited States. However, in me respect, he had been just me facet in the overall enbarrassing presidency of the Georgian peanut farner, under whan he had served. It nust, fixerefore, be the policy. of silence in relatia1 to the PLO itself that must

here be questiaxed, for that '

policy will likely remain

the Middle East.

, _"allcwed" , for existence, i.e. the

.when Jinny is bad: in business making "Skippy".

Che of the reasons

'given for the refusal of the U.S.A. to @al with the P10

is a terrorist group which indiscriminately kills

school children. Forgotten is the Ir91n of the 1940's, a Jewish terrorist group, ammg whose ranks was me

,Nknadiim Begin. Now Prine Minister Begin had, at that

tine, a highly placed nane a1 British Most-Wanted lists, most notably for his involvenent in the bathing

of Jerusalem's King David

Hotel. Today it is Mr. Begin's voice that, louder than all others, shrieks

.out warnings against having .any (balings with terrorist

thugs. lThe hmorable Prine Minister of Israel himself then, if his maxim were to be adhered to, would becare persma—nm-grata. However, and perhaps rightly so, P.M. Begin is received in nest Western capitals, including Washingtm and Ottawa, with the highest hcnor due his office. Another canmnly alleged reason for ignoring the P110 is that the PLO has sold its soul to the Soviet 'Camufists (now there is a

band of thugs and terrEists!)

It is quite true that the Reds want the Middle East and desire it about as much as Eve did the apple. The Free World (United States, Canada and Carpany) would be in sorry shape should the Marxist-IeniniSt bandits get their grubby "little" hands (:1 the oil fields of This,then, may have just enough validity as an argutent to persuade sate Anericans that we should have nothing- to do with the P10. However this argment is far too

sinplistic, for in reality

the P10 is still far from being a puppet for Soviet expansionism. Puppets of Moscow remain, for the nest ' part, at the lunatic fringes; of the Organizaticn, but (and this is a most important "but") will increasingly gain credibil- ity and strength as the P10 ‘is further ignored by the miwd States.

_ The final argument is a nest carplex one. It is argued that the survival and security of the State of Israel would be in grave jeopardy should the P10 be its main reasal

establishment of a honeland for the timeless, Palestinian

- THE UPEI SUN, Oct; 18,; 1979, page 13

' people, who for the most '

part, harbor no great love for Israel. Israel,‘ " unquestionably, Sic—es have a right to a secure survival. (Israel has been a 1mg

and loyal friend of the United States, and I for me would qapcse having them becaie the "Taiwan" of the Middle ’East.) However Israel M have the right to deny.the sane unalienable rights of a . hareland to a peqale whan

geography hasnede oo-

inhabitants (for thousands of years) of the sane land wherein the Jewish state resides. Neither Yahweh (Jehovah) the God of Israel nor Allah the sane God of Islam, can be justly ~ appealed to in order that land may be stolen fran ' others. The Holy Land is no less holy to the brothers and sisters of Mohamed than it is for the children of Moses.

Israel has no right, as there is right, to wage "holy war" against its neighbours. Israel does not have the right to treat the air space of the sovereign natim of Iebanm as its own, and still less right to barb Iebanese cities, causing the loss of countless civilian lives. I see no difference between Israeli bathing raids and Palestinian terrorist attadcs; in bothcases 4-year—olds die, and in both cases the blood of the innocent is spilled a1to the "Holy Land". Israel does not have the right to sell, lease, loan, hate- stead or~otherwise settle the lands occupied in 1967 which rightfully belmg to Others. The claim of "Judea and Samaria" is no lcnger valid in the 20th century as now the land is but the occupied West Bank.

Voices for justice for Palestine are rising from a chorus of world leaders. Sons of them are opportun-

iists, but most of them are

sincere. ane John Paul II added his powerful voice to the others, when, in the U.N. General Assembly, he too called for a just and

‘ equitable settlement of the

Palestinian questim. Sate of the solutions to the prdalem can be found ancng the writings of his pre— decessor, Paul VI, who calledfor, among other things, an intematicnal-

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