THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 27, 1978
Observers Report Achievements of 95th
Congress Are Favorable to Israel's Needs 1
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Apart from the stunning
setback on the Carter Ad-
ministration's Mideast
warplane package deal that
included Saudi Arabia, the
95th Congress, which ad-
journed last week, hand-
somely supported Israel's
requirements, continued to
encourage Soviet Jewry and
established new programs
to extend aid for both in the
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In rendering support for
Israel and Soviet Jewry, the
Congress also spiked the
biggest guns in the Carter
Administration that
courted the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization and
arranged a bilateral
partnership with the Soviet
Union on the Middle East's
future.
In addition, Congress
blocked moves the Adminis-
tration favored to weaken
the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment that links
Soviet emigration policy
with U.S. government cre-
dits and almost slammed
the gate shut on financial
help for Syria because of its
offensives against the
Lebanese Christians who
have Israel's backing.
But Congress, sensing
the Arab-Israeli break-
through by Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat's
trip to Jerusalem last
Nov. 19 toward which the
Administration was ini-
tially cool, opened its
arms wide to Sadat when
he came twice after that
to the Capitol as it did for
Israeli Premier
Menahem Begin. It has
given full backing and
highest marks to
President Carter for his
Camp David initiative
and the two frameworks
that emerged from that
13-day conference in Sep-
tember.
New programs set up by
Congress include the follow-
ing: a $40 million fund for
U.S.-Israeli binational
cooperation on agricultural
techniques; a $1 million
authorization for Israeli
students to study in
American-supported in-
stitutions in Arab countries
and Arab students to study
in similar institutions in Is-
rael; a $5 million fund to
encourage establishment of
a "Marshall Plan" for the
Middle East that specifi-
cally includes Israel and her
neighbors; a fund of $20 mil-
lion to help American vol-
untary organizations which
are to match that money in
resettling Soviet refugees in
the United States. Apart
from the "Marshall Plan"
fund, the new programs
were proposed by the Carter
Administration.
In addition to providing
Israel with $785 million in
economic aid and $1 billion
in military assistance, as
the Adthinistration had
recommended, Congress
also voted $25 million in a
continuation of support for
settling Soviet Jews in Is-
rael.
Particularly far-reaching
legislation was the adoption
of the anti-Arab boycott law
to help protect American
businessmen from dis-
crimination by the Arab
governments that have bar-
red trade with companies
that deal with Israel or have
Jewish management. While
the legislation is not an
ironclad barrier to the
boycott, Congressional
proponents are waiting for
the new Congress to meet in
January for an examination
of its impact.
Large sections of the
Senate and House
reacted immediately and
strongly both to the
President's offer in
Plains, Ga., on Aug. 7,
1977, to talk to the PLO if
it accepted UN Security
Council Resolution 242,
even with the PLO's qual-
ification on the Palesti-
nians, and to the joint
Soviet-American Mideast
statement of Oct. 1, 1977.
The PLO, as it turned out,
rejected the idea of ac-
cepting 242 and thereby
implicitly recognizing Is-
rael.
Congressional sentiment
against the PLO was
dramatically indicated
when a resolution, spon-
sored by the dean of the
Jewish members in the
House, Rep. Sidney Yates
(D-Ill.), attracted the signa-
tures of 402 Congressmen
and denounced the PLO's
slaughter of civilians on the
Israeli coastal road near Tel
Aviv last March. ---
How far the Administra-
tion has veered from the
courtship with the PLO is
indicated by its turnabout
in favoring visas for PLO
members to conduct an in-
formation office in Wash-
ington. After initially op-
posing such a ban, the State
Department made it known
that it now supports a ban
on PLO members entering
the United States.
Capping this change of
view, with which Congres-
sional sentiment had much
to do, was Carter's expres-
sion that equated the PLO
with the Nazis, the Ku Klux
Klan and Communists.
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