150 Congressmen at AIPAC • WASHINGTON — More than half of the U.S. Senate and over 100 members of the U.S. House of Represen- tatives attended the 24th annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington last week to show their support for Is- rael. Three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates — former Vice President Walter Mondale and Senators Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) and Gary Hart (D-Colo.) — also underscored their own strong pro-Israel senti- ments. The conference, which in- cluded three days of plenary sessions, political action workshops and private meetings between delegates and their Senators and Representatives, brought together more than 1,200 friends of Israel from 41 states and 130 college cam- puses to discuss U.S. policy in the Middle East. Thomas A. Dine, AIPAC's executive director, outlined the priority areas of the Middle East agenda for the pro-Israel community, in- cluding enhanced strategic and economic cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. He offered a critique of the Reagan Administration's "on-again, off-again ap- proach to our alliance with Israel" and listed a number of "erroneous preconcep- tions" on which U.S. policy has been based. Dine warned that "these same errors could easily reappear in this city with regard to an Arabist approach to Syria — and the- Soviet Union" and further em- phasized that "only by continuing and bolster- ing our very active role in the American political system . . . are we able to shape and reshape American foreign pol- icy." The conference also in- cluded keynote addresses by Lawrence Eagleburger, undersecretary of state for political affairs, and Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem. Eagleburger stressed the Reagan Ad- ministration's "preoccupa- tion with Israel's security and well-being" and stated that "the U.S. can and will continue to assure under any and all circumstances that Israel has the military strength it needs to defend itself." He focused on Israel's role in resisting Soviet encroachment in the Middle East and maintained that the U.S. will support Israel in the event of a Soviet- backed, Syrian-PLO attack. Meir Rosenne, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., fo- cused on the importance to Israel of close relations with the U.S. Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) spoke at the main banquet. Laxalt, thought to be President Reagan's closest per- sonal friend in Congress, called for "closer consul- tation between Israel and the United States" and warned that "to do otherwise is dangerous and counterproductive." He affirmed that "Israel is not a satellite but an ally; a fiercely dedicated, strategically invaluable, stable ally." Sen. Dodd focused on Is- rael's importance as a U.S. ally and stated that the Jewish state should be treated as such. "We can have our debates and dis- agreements," said Dodd, "but it is those fundamental values of those prominent issues that bind us together particularly in our hour of need for allies." He also stressed that the Senate would guarantee Israel's se- Pioneer Women Praise Supreme Court Ruling NEW YORK (JTA) — Pioneer Women/ Naamat, the women's Labor Zionist Organization, said last week it would redouble its efforts to protect women's freedom of choice in reprod- uction in both the United States and Israel. Phyllis Frank, of Wash- ington, vice president of the 50,000 member organiza- tion, made that statement in hailing the June 15 rul- ing by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a series of local legislative restric- tions on access to abortions. "The Supreme Court's de- cision is a victory for all American women, for the cause of freedom and for the principle of church-state separation," Ms. Frank said. "We welcome the rul- ing as a significant advance for the American idea of freedom of choice." curity. At the end of the banquet, the assembly received mes- sages of friendship from President Reagan and Prime Minister Begin. Israeli Rabbi Warns Orthodox Extremists NEW YORK (JTA) — A leader of the Conservative movement in Israel warned here last week that if "ex- treme elements" of Or- thodox Jewry in Israel will continue to harass the Con- servative movement "then we will urge American Jews not to assist them any- more." Rabbi Philip Spectre, the executive director of the Movement for Conservative Judaism in Israel, charged in a press conference at the Jewish Theological Semi- nary of America, that a re- cent incident in Kiryat Gat, a town in the south of Israel, in which Lubavitcher Hasidim disturbed a Bar and Bat Mitzva celebration by the Conservative move- ment, has made the leader- ship of Conservative Judaism in Israel deter- mined "not to let this con- tinue." The incident with the Lubavitcher Hasidim took place last month, Spectre said. Spectre said that his movement, which has about 10,000 registered members in Israel "has no problem with enlightened Orthodox Jews in Israel but with the less enlightened such as the Lubavitcher Hasidim." He said that the Conservative movement is gaining in- roads in Israel. "We want to achieve reciprocal respect with Orthodox Jews in Is- rael and elsewhere," he said. 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