ABSTRACT
In order to help Israel come safely to grips with the four questions I have just raised — and to nudge the Arabs to accept the fact of Israel's legitimacy in the Middle East — the United States must make provision for the following:
an American naval base in Haifa big enough to serve as the home port for the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet;
smaller naval contingents in Eilat;
air bases, personnel, and electronic listening stations in the Galilee and in the Negev;
prepositioned land, sea, and air equipment in Israel for use either in Israel or elsewhere in the Middle East;
the stationing in Israel of suitable numbers of American Army troops;
insistence on a West Bank/Gaza Palestinian Arab state that, like neutralized Switzerland, will allow no foreign, especially great power, forces on its soil and that will eschew terrorism against Israel and make full and formal peace with it in return for Israel's agreement to go back to as many of the pre-1967 boundaries as are militarily defensible for its major population centers;
American support for a Greater Jerusalem — perhaps including Bethlehem — that would be physically undivided but religiously and administratively cantonized along the lines of the Greater London Council or Metropolitan Toronto;
a clear, binding, public, written, formal American mutual assistance treaty that says in effect that, if need be, America will use Israel as a staging area to meet other trouble spots in the Middle East and that as far as Israel's threatened existence 153is concerned, that country, like the city of West Berlin, is on 'our side of the line' and that America will fight anyone - including the Russians and the Arabs — who crosses that line by force.
