THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 4, 1975 15
Future Aid to Syria Depends on Treatment of 4,500 Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Congress will allow the
Ford Administration to
make an additional eco-
nomic loan of $58 million to
Syria without opposition,
but with ample warning
that further financial as-
sistance will be opposed
with floor action unless the
plight of Syrian Jews is alle-
viated.
House members who
chose to make a fight
against the second loan to
the Damascus government
have found they had vir-
tually run out in their legis-
lative time to block the Ad-
ministration's action.
On the first loan of $25
million granted earlier this
year, Congress made no
move to prevent it in view of
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger's preparation at
the time for his ill-fated
venture for a second Egyp-
tian-Israeli interim agree-
ment. Congressional sup-
porters of a better
atmosphere for Syrian Jews
felt pressure against Syria
would be considered by the
Administration as jeopar-
dizing the Kissinger mis-
sion.
The Administration's
move to allow a second
loan for Syria brought
angry opposition at a
hearing in which Adminis-
tration policy was roundly
scored as detrimental to
American interests since
principle was being sacri-
ficed for pragmatic deals
which, as Rep. Benjamin
S. Rosenthal (D-NY) and
others indicated have re-
sulted in failure in other
parts of the world.
At the hearing, Harold M.
Saunders, assistant deputy
secretary of state, con-
tended that the question of
Syrian Jewry should be sub-
merged and handled with
"quiet diplomacy" in the in-
terests of the "overriding
objective" of a peace settle-
ment in the Middle East.
Saunders was supported
by Robert H. Nooter, assist-
ant administrator of the
Agency for International
Development (AID), who
interpreted the U.S. law on
aid to Syria being contin-
gent on improvement of the
lot of the 4,500 remaining
Jews in Syria as being "not
a legal prohibition" but a
sense of Congress and
should be dealt with as
such.
Rosenthal said that when
the State Department gave
Syria $25 million in aid last
February, "none of us res-
isted" because "we expected
improvement" in Syrian
emigration policies." But, he
added, there has been no
"measurable" improvement.
Saunders contended,
under pressure from Ro-
senthal to discuss the issue
in public and not in private
session as Saunders had
requested, that there had
been improvement. He
said that journalists and
others have stated on tele-
vision and in the public
prints that the situation of
Syrian Jewry had im-
proved.
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President and at the hear-
ing, Congressmen charged
that granting financial aid
to Syria without improve-
ment in the lot of the,re-
maining 4,500 Syrian Jews
violated the U.S. Foreign
Assistance Law.
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The subcommittee agreed
without dissent to accept
Saunders' request that the
details of the Syrian Jewish
problem be discussed in ex-
ecutive session. Saunders
said also that "our prupose"
in providing aid "is to draw
Syria into the peace-making
process."
Dr. George E. Gruen, di-
rector of Middle East Af-
fairs for the American Jew-
ish Committee, stated that
despite token actions to im-
prove the public image of
Syria in the United States,
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the Syrian government con- due presentation by the early this month, advocates
tinues to impose heavy re-
Administration of its for- of assistance to Syrian Jews
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strictions on its Jewish com- eign aid program for the indicate they will center
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new fiscal year for Israel, their efforts to block finan-
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Jordan, Egypt and Syria cial aid to Syria in the pro-'
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