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Show Mideast problems Buch presents hostility cures the Zionist ruling class, says Mr. Buch. Mr. Buch criticized the government govern-ment of Israel for influencing the foreign policy of the United States. He says the Zionists have made the United States adopt a right wing approach to the Middle East situation. Solutions to the continuing hostilities in the Middle East were presented by Peter Buch who was on campus sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party and the Arab Student Organization. Mr. Buch lived and worked on a kibbutz - in Israel for 6 months in the early 50's until he became opposed to what he calls the white western Zionist who rule Israel. He then became a Marxist and founding member of the Young Socialist Alliance. Mr. Buch's plan calls first for the repeal of the Israeli right to return law. The law now only allows Jews to come into the country to settle and live. Buch feels that Palestinians, who had lived on the now Israeli land, should also be able to return to their former homes. Mr. Buch said that the Zionists had driven out the Palestinians by arresting the Arab leaders and causing the Arab population to flee their homes because of organized terrorism directed at them by the Zionist government. Likens seizure Buch likened the seizure of Arab lands by the Israeli government to the seizure of the Indian lands by the United States government in the last century. Mr. Buch questioned the logic of trying to solve Israel's problems at the expense of the Arabs. Mr. Buch does not want to give up the idea of a Jewish State, rather he would like to see Democratic Socialist state that is not dominated by one culture as the present state of Israel is. He would like to see a government representing the Palestinians, who are now 50 percent of the population, and the oriental Jews, who are 60 percent of the Jewish population, instead of western Jews who now control the country. Favor plan On paper, at least the governments govern-ments of Algeria favor these plans for Israel. What is surprising is that the General Union of Palestinian Students also favors this plan. Up until now every Arab organization and government has wanted to "push the Jews into the sea." The unified state of Arabs and Jews is contrary to the prevailing custom of establishing a state religion in countries in the Middle East. Mr. Buch opposed the terrorist methods used by some Palestine liberation groups. "Individuals can't solve problems that effect millions. The millions must take care of it," said Mr. Buch. In talking of the terrorist attacks in Munich and at the airport in Lod, Mr. Buch said to take them in the context of Napalm attacks by the Israeli Air Force against Palestine villages a hundred miles from the Israeli border; the terror used by the Israelis to drive the Arabs out of Palestine after the partition of Palestine by the United Nations. "Who are the real terrorists?" asks Mr. Buch. The Palestinians get more publicity but the Israeli attacks involve more people. Mass action Like the Weatherman faction of terrorists in this country, the Palestine terrorists only help the ruling class to gain a stronger hold on the country. Only mass action by Arabs and Jews can overpower f 1??&5&A J rri. mm .-. , (r i n Brobl 8Pke to students on solutions to the Middle East 50'a 7m.ylesterdaY- He lived and worked on a kibbutz in the early rule I became PPOsed to the"white Western Zionists who |