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University Daily Kansan, October 22, 1982
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Speakers give views on, solutions to Israeli-Palestinian battle
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Israelis and Palestinians are locked into a no win situation because each side refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Jerusalem to appoint mayor or Jerusalem said last night.
Meron Benvenisti, deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1974 to 1978, spoke to about 70 people in Wescow Auditorium on "Israel and the Middle East."
"The stances of Palestinians and the "elected Israeli government are mirror images. The Palestinians say 'The land is ours,' the Palestinians say 'The land is ours,'" he said.
The Arabs see the Israelis as imperialistic colonialists, who would collapse without the support of the United States, Benvenisti said, and the Israelis deny the Palestinian Arabs have a right to any independent status.
BENVENISTI said a third party, such as the United States, needed to encourage the two sides to agree on small compromises. He said some type of compromise would be necessary for the Palestinians and Israelis before an ultimate solution could be found.
The conflict is based on fear, he said, and that fear must be dissipated in order for Israelis and Palestinians to find a means for peaceful coexistence.
Bovenisi said he thought a political autonomy plan, in which Walesians were excluded, could be made.
own society and economy without political independence from Israel, was
After the Palestinians had lived under this plan for a while, they would feel stronger about their position in Israel and eventually would be satisfied with political autonomy instead of independence, he said.
He said Israel, for its part, would like to see the Palestinians exist as an group in Israel, instead of a group with images for an independent political state.
NEITHER SIDE can compromise, he said, because they feel that if they did, they would be giving up an essential part of themselves.
He said the two sides now waged a constant war between each other, and he called the recent Lebanon conflict the second Israeli-Palestinian war. The first war took place 35 years ago, he said, with the creation of the Israel state.
The "second war" was started by the Israeli government because Palestinians in Lebanon were trying to create a military option for themselves by organizing an army equipped with tanks and guns, Benvenisti said.
"ISRAEL DECIDED they could not allow it, and went to war to destroy that option," he said.
to find moderate Palestinians in the West Bank who would be willing to accept political autonomy instead of an independent state.
He said Israel wanted to destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank.
Bvenisteni said that in this respect, Israel had not obtained its goal because it had not destroyed the independent nature of the Palestinian people.
When one views the conflict as a war, the position of the Israeli hard-liners cannot be criticized because war is characterized by violence, he said.
"Each side tries to show the world how the other side is more blood-bleedy."
The situation is so complex that years will pass before a solution can be found, or that it never occurs.
Zionism as part of Israel's political philosophy prevents the establishment of a homeland for Palestinians, an anti-Zionist rabbi said last night.
Religious Zionism is the movement of Jewish back to their biblical homeland of Israel.
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
But Elmer' Berger, the rabbi, said political Zionism was not synonymous with Israel.
Meron Benvenisti
The Israeli government has enlarged the definition of Zionism to include its wish to expand its borders to conform with a 1919 map, Berger said.
The map was drawn up in accordance to water resources and the economy of area. Berger said. His northern extension to the Lifani River in Lebanon.
"NEITHER GOD, nor the Bible, nor defense had anything to do with those projected boundaries," he said.
Berger spoke to more than 250 people, including Palestinians and Arabs, in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. His speech, delivered on the same night that Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, spoke, was sponsored by the General Union of Palestinian Students and the Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Human Rights.
Bergar said religious Zionism threatened no one's political rights and did not allow it.
Kather the political Zionism that characterizes the government is more likely to force people to use projectiles.
"I categorically reject the Zionist-contrived slander that to be anti-Zionist in opposition to the man-made policies in society is to be anti-Semitic," he said.
"I WILL NOT be prevented from exercising my inanlable American right to be as free in my political judgments about this Middle East state as I am about any other state, including my own country, when I think policies warrant moral condemnation or exhibit questionable political wisdom."
Berger condemned the position Israel took in rejecting Palestinian claims for their homeland. Palestine has been compelled to use force because Israel will not allow it any peaceful means to the Palestinian's rights, he said.
Berger said in a press conference before his speech that Palestine had had a platform for peace since the beginning, but that it had been consistently blocked from peaceful negotiation.
"So the cry of defense for Galilee and generally, security, is hollow and the American echo is sheer hypocrisy," he said.
ZIONISM IS the reason why Israel persistently rejects possible road to peace.
Begin's policies are not eccentricities, he said.
"They are vintage Zionism. The American illustration that by indulging
(Begin's) adventures, he and his Zionist state will be more amenable to some reasonable formula for peace is a product of the ignorance about Zionism or not only this White House, but most of those which have preceded it," he said.
Israel's policy that citizenship requires descent from a Jewish mother, conversion by an orthodox rabbi, or the profession of Judaism has catastrophic implications for Palestinians, Berger said.
To create such a Zionist state required the expatriation of non-Jewish nationals, he said, and this prevents the establishment of a true democracy.
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