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ism once again conies into play
— if Congress should increase
the Administration's overall
planned budget, for example —
then Israel, like other foreign aid
recipients, will have to do with
less overall assistance once
again.
Zakheim, in his speech, cited
the very serious implications for
Israel's already hard-pressed
economy as a result of Gramm-
Rudman. "First," he said, "the
often-used approach of adding
to the Administration's request
once it came to Capitol Hill just
will not work anymore," he said.
"Unwanted additions to the
President's budget are the best
way to trigger Gramm- Rudman
reductions." .
Second, Zakheim continued,
"we must get used to the fact
that military assistance levels
for Israel simply will not grow
in the future. The Gramm-Rud-
man legislation forces the deficit
down to zero in 1992. Put
another way, it exerts continu-
ing downward pressure on ex-
penditure. The President's five
year program responds to that
pressure by fitting inside the
Gramm-Rudman limits. If the
next several years budgets are
approved, we can reach the
Gramm-Rudman goal of no defi-
cit by 1992. But in these cir-
cumstances, Israel will do well
just to maintain the 1.8 billion
dollar level until that time."
That means, in short, that the
Israel Defense Force is going to
have to become increasingly
more selective in its weapons ac-
either
quisitions program
from the U.S. and other foreign
suppliers or from within Israel
itself. There is not going to be a
whole lot of money around to
make many mistakes.
Zakheim, who led the inter-
agency team which visited
Israel to study the Levi project,
pointed out that the U.S. has
already made available over one
billion dollars to Israel for the
development of the Levi. "The,
Levi is a very special program,
he said. "It is not meant for the
U.S„ nor do we consider it a
candidate for future acquisition.
The U.S. Air Force has absolute-
ly no requirement, or interest in
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this plane, which is being devel-
Force, which was established a oped to support Israel's unique
year ago to increase trade, private air battle, management plan —
investment and tourism in Israel. which differs from our own —
Hermelin is chairman of the and the Middle Eastern environs
executive committee of the ment in which Israel's air forces
American ORT Federation and must operates Nevertheless, the
serves on the boards of Bar-Ilan U.S. has already committed
University, the Jewish Theologi- over one billion dollars toward
cal Seminary and American the development of this air-
Friends of Hebrew Univeisity.
craft."
He is a member of the board of
Zakheim recalled that this is
governors of the Jewish Welfare not the first time that the
Federation of Detroit and im- United States has supported a
mediate past president of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek. He is a board local Israeli development effort
member of the Michigan Opera, "nor will it be the last. He
the Detroit Friends of Modern referred to the 100 million
Art, the Children's Hospital of dollars appropriated forthe con-
Michigan, the Michigan Cancer struction of the Merkava battle
Foundation, and the Detroit tank. "Without the United
Round Table of Christians and 'States' support," he said, "this
unique combination armored
that simply cannot be left to con-
tractors — their job is to produce a
product, not to critique them-
selves. Program managers
likewise are not the appropriate
people; their job is to deliver the
product."
Zakheim, a former Congres-
sional budget expert with a doc-
torate from Oxford University
who joined Under Secretary of
Defense Fred Ikle's staff at the
start of the Reagan Administra-
tion, said Israel must find others
to perform the costevaluation
task. "In the past," he said,
"the task was performed second
hand,,as Israel acquired foreign
systems that had already been
subject to such evaluations.
With Israel producing more and
more of its own systems, how-
ever, second hand analysis is
simply not enough. Israel must
develop its own internal, inde-
pendent program analysis and
evaluation capability if it is to
ensure that the weapons sys-
tems it develop are the most
cost effective for its own unique
mission requirements."
Zakheim also made clear that
the Gramm-Rudman law is go-
ing_ to significantly reduce
Israel's ability to obtain greater
sums of military assistance from
Washington. There will, there-
fore, be a smaller financial
cushion and less room for
mistakes.
Gramm-Rudman was passed
by Congress and signed into law
by President Ronald Reagan in
order to reduce the massive
federal budget deficit over the
next few years. Already in the
already-passed 1986 fiscal year
budget, Israel has been pressed
to return some 77 million dollars
in promised military aid and
nearly 60 million dollars in
economic assistance to the U.S.
Treasury. In the pending 1987
legislation, the Reagan Admin-
istration has proposed the same
1.8 billion dollars in military
grants for Israel as approved
last year. But if Gramm-
Rudman's automatic across-the-
board budget cutting mechan-
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