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...bolstered by Israel's national mood. Recent polls indicate that 60% of Israelis want to hold on to the Mitla and Giddi passes. Last week some of the 20,000 people at a rally sponsored by the right-wing opposition Likud Bloc stoned the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to protest American pressure on Israel to make concessions. They carried signs with anti-Kissinger statements. Read one: "Dr. K.-we shall not win you another peace prize with our blood...
Before leaving Tel Aviv, Rabin told newsmen that he was undertaking the West German visit "with mixed feelings as a Jew and as an Israeli." A Sabra who was born in 1922 on a farm near Jerusalem, Rabin nonetheless still counts himself "an heir to the Holocaust." As if to emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk...
Rabin's aim on his five-day visit was to link this doleful past with a more hopeful future. Yet even that future is unsettled, mainly because the relationship between Tel Aviv and Bonn appears to be changing. No European nation has closer ties with Israel than does the Federal Republic, which long ago established a "special relationship" with the Jewish state. In compensation for the horrors of the Holocaust, the West German government has paid reparations to Jews of more than $20 billion, including $800 million to Israel itself. Recently Bonn took the lead in Common Market deliberations...
Despite their desire for business, however, canal authorities last week abruptly turned away one prospective customer. Abie Nathan, onetime Tel Aviv hamburger king who lobbies for Arab-Israeli friendship aboard his "peace ship" Shalom in the Mediterranean, sailed the 110-ton vessel into Port Said. Nathan hoped to make good on a pledge to sail through to the Israeli port of Eilat. He was refused passage and escorted back to sea by the Egyptian navy...
...Segal, 37, bestselling tearjerker (Love Story, Fairy Tale) who has been writing and lecturing at Princeton since he left his classics professor's job at Yale; and Karen Marianne James, 28, a British children's book editor whom he met last summer on a flight from Tel Aviv; he for the first time, she for the second; in Princeton...