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Foreign Affairs; Senate
Foreign Relations; and House
and Senate Appropriations.
Those are the panels which
must approve all foreign aid
legislation.
But because of the Gramm-
Rudman budget-cutting
mood in Washington, Dine
said, "the future is not aid."
He said the aid levels were
not going to increase "unless
there were a Syrian-Israeli
war and Israel was just flat-
tened economically." Short of
that scenario, the real future
for Israel is "making sure
that the economy is led by
high-tech exports. And that
includes defense and non-
defense items."
Thus, AIPAC has become
an active supporter of the
many direct and indirect ef-
forts to promote Israeli ex-
ports, including Operation In-
dependence, a :private in-
itiative of several prominent
American Jewish business-
men. AIPAC was also in-
volved in lobbying the Con-
gress to support the estab-
lishment of the U.SIsraeli
Free Trade Area.
AIPAC, in the coming
months, can be expected to
promote efforts in Congress
to revise the law on blocking
foreign arms sales. As it cur-
rently stands, the" President
can push through controver-
sial sales to Saudi Arabia and
other Arab states by simply
winning over only a third of
the Senate.
kIPAC is also quietly ex-
ploring ways to reduce the in-
terest rates on America's
outstanding military loans to
Israel. An earlier effort by
Democratic Senator Daniel
Inouye of Hawaii and Bob
Kasten of Wisconsin was
scruobed after Jonathan Jay
Pollard's arrest last Novem-
ber. That initiative, which
was well on its way toward
passage, would have saved
Israel an immediate $531
million.
Another fresh item on the
AIPAC agenda, Dine said, in-
volves a two-year old amend-
ment by Democratic Repre-
sentative Howard Berman of
California to transfer some $5
million a year to Israel for
developmental aid projects in
Africa.
3ut in the process of ex-
panding its traditional agen-
da, AIPAC has rankled some
influential people in the
United States and Israel.
There has recently been
criticism of its style, growth
and policies.
Besides criticism by Is-
rael's Arab adversaries and
their supporters in the United
States, and from various Ad-
ministration officials who
have been angered by its
policies and its influence in
Congress, lately, AIPAC has
faced a new wave of criticism
from an unlikely source —
namely, from some American
Jews who have warned that
AIPAC's supposed 'heavy
hand" in promoting a "single
issue" — U.S. support for
Israel — could actually
generate a backlash against
Israel and the American
Jewish community. And there
have also been a few out-
spoken critics in Israel as
well, from both the right as
well as from the left, who
have lashed out against the
group.
AIPAC's President, Bob
Asher of Chicago. and Dine
Some Jewish
organizations,
often jealous of
AIPAC's
recently-found
popularity, have
charged that the
lobby was usurping
some of their
traditional turf.
are understandably sensitive
to the complaints.
AIPAC is a registered
doinestic American lobbying
organization. It represents
Americans who want to
strengthen U.S7Israeli rela-
tions. It is not a foreign agent
of the government of Israel.
Thus, it does not have to
register as such with the U.S.
Justice Department. But
because it is not a foreign
agent, AIPAC cannot receive
any money or guidance from
Israel. AIPAC officials and
Israeli leaders, can, of course,
talk to each other. And they
do. But AIPAC must main-
tain an independent posture.
It is an American — not an
Israeli — organization. It
represents American citizens.
AIPAC must raise its own
money, and these donations,
mostly from American Jews,
are not tax-deductible. Six
years ago, before the the issue
of the U.S. sale of AWACS top
Saudi Arabia, AIPAC had
about 30 people on its staff.
Today, there are close to 100.
During this period, its annual
budget has grown from $1.2
million to over $6 million.
Membership has increased
from 12,000 to 60,000.
But with this growth has
come all sorts of criticism •.
Some Jewish organizations,
often jealous of AIPAC's
recently-found popularity,
have charged that the lobby
was usurping some of their
traditional turf, that it was
taking on too much. There are
also widespread charges that
AIPAC has been too active
behind-thescenes in pro-
moting single-issue pro-
Israeli political action com-
mittees, or PACs, which raise