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Still, Haig saw the Israelis' need for U.S. help in establishing any kind of international force as a chance to exert some leverage on the Begin government. His hope: to make Israel more amenable to trying to solve the basic problem in the Middle East???working out some kind of satisfactory arrangement for the Palestinians...
Such incidents have alarmed Iran's minorities, especially its 80,000-member Jewish community?one of the oldest in the Middle East???and 250,000 Christian Armenians. Although there have been no overt signs of antiSemitism, the Ayatullah's known antipathy to Zionism and Israel raises fears among Jewish families that there could be a repetition of the purges that took place in Egypt and Iraq after 1948. Khomeini has repeatedly assured Iran's minorities that their rights will be protected. Last month he sent a large floral wreath to the new "Hagh Horn," the leader of the Jewish community...
...story page 40). After an uncertain apprenticeship that saw his popularity rating drop to 30% in the polls, President Jimmy Carter was able to recoup through his foreign policy victories. At his Camp David summit, Carter appeared for a while to have achieved a miracle for the Middle East???a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. But at year's end the negotiations were frustratingly stalled. Poland's Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, the athletic, scholarly Archbishop of Cracow, became the first non-Italian Pope in 4% centuries; in tribute to his gentle predecessor, Albino Cardinal Luciani, who held the keys...
...They can imagine a "Finlandized" or neutralized Turkey, a Sovietized Afghanistan, a Balkanized Pakistan and an Iran in some still unpredictable state of disarray. Politically tenuous and strategically crucial, this band of non-Arab Islamic countries stretches from the Bosporus in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east???nearly 3,000 miles of buffer between Russia and the warm waters of the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It is potentially a geopolitical disaster area, in which the strategic balance is shifting in favor of the U.S.S.R., and Washington has no clear idea of what...
Unfortunately for Israel?and for the prospects for peace in the Middle East???Arafat's pleas seemed to be falling on receptive ears. His archenemy, Abu Nidal, a onetime Fatah member who broke away to establish his own terrorist gang, sent word from Iraq that he was willing to agree to a truce with Arafat, whom he had previously accused of "treason." If the Palestinians manage to patch up their quarrels, they will be able to pay more deadly attention to the Jewish state...