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...Coolidge Hall 413, Arie Lova Eliav, a veteran of the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) and a leader of his country's peace movement, sits at a small desk, reading, writing and getting ready to teach...
...Eliav's enjoying his break. "Politicians everywhere should take a sabbatical, just the way people from academia do," Eliav, who resigned his Knesset seat to come to the Center for International Affairs, says. "Professors need a year every seven to recharge their intellectual batteries. That is even more true of politicians, who can become more locked in, more parochial and self-centered...
...When I started in sociology at Hebrew University, it was light years from today," Eliav declares. "A Congressman who learned economics 20 years ago is hopelessly out of date today." But catching up on new ideas is only one of the reasons which prompted Eliav to come to Harvard...
...Says Eliav, who is known by friends as "Lyova," or "Lion," and who describes himself as a dove with talons: "It did not take any courage for the government to say no to a half-crippled Kissinger who had Viet Nam falling on his head. But it would take courage to adopt a policy. The question is not so much one of substance but of approach." Like Avneri, Eliav would make a broad-scale offer to the Arabs: return of all occupied territories in exchange for full peace, including treaties, diplomatic relations, economic ties and demilitarized zones. "We should tell...
...Eliav's views to a large extent are rejected by hawks like former General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, the Israeli Patton who turned a 1973 setback in the Sinai into victory by rolling his armor across the Suez Canal. He says, "We must explain to the Arabs what is vital to us and make them an offer on a take-it-or-leave-it basis." He would acknowledge Egypt's sovereign right to the Sinai, for instance, but would insist upon a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces over a 20-year period. He would annex the West Bank...