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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Pentagon Official
Says Lavi A Mistake
B
altimore — Israel's
controversial Lavi
fighter plane project
is too expensive to warrant
further U.S. aid, a Pentagon
analyst said this week.
In his last official act as
deputy under secretary of de-
fense, Dov Zakheim, 39,
spoke to a Jewish audience in
Baltimore on Sunday, only
ten days after stepping down
from his key post to take a
job with a high-tech defense
firm in Arlington, Virginia.
Zakheim maintains that
the Lavi, which Israel wants
to develop and produce as its
own state-of-the-art combat
plane for the 1990s, will cost
far more than Israel had
budgeted and will drain Is-
raeli resources away from
other vital military pro-
grams. Israel has budgeted
$550 million. a year for the
plane, two of whose prototype
models were successfully
tested in December and
January.
Zakheim estimates that the
Lavi would cost between $22
million and $35 million per
plane to produce.
"We have proposed alterna-
tives that would be jointly
produced by the U.S. and Is-
rael that would be far more
cost effective," said Zakheim,
an Orthodox Jew who was
denounced by Menachem
Eini, the Israeli who heads
the Lavi project, as "this
kippah-wearing religious Jew
who is, in fact, causing tre-
mendous damage to Israel."
Morris Amitay, former
head of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee in
Washington, has criticized
Zakheim as the Pentagon's
anti-Lavi point man. "What
could be more clever than to
get an Orthodox Jew to lead
the charge against the Lavi?"
he asked the Wall Street
Journal.
But Zakheim calls such a
comment "dumb" and says he
never felt compromised be-
cause of his religion while in
his Pentagon position. "My
assessment (of the Lavi) was
my professional opinion. This
is my business as a systems
analyst, and my professional
reputation is on the line." He
feels vindicated by the fact
that many in Israel, includ-
ing the military establish-
ment, are critical of the Lavi,
as he is, on grounds of cost-
efficiency. "It's now strictly a
matter of politics," he said in
an interview, noting that
every day that the decision is
deferred costs Israel an
enormous amount of money.
Dov Zakheim: bullish on
Israel.
Zakheim told his audience
that the Pentagon is bullish
on Israel -because of the
Jewish state's technological
and military expertise. He
pointed out that Washington
bought $205 million worth of
Israeli military goods and
services last year. As for the
Pollard affair, Zakheim as-
serted that Pollard "is not a
Jewish martyr, he's a traitor
to his country," and he had
no sympathy for the con-
victed spy. Zakheim said he
himself did not detect any
anti-Semitic sentiments in
the Pentagon from Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger
on down.
Wearing a tieclip with the
Defense Department insignia
and Weinberger's signature,
Zakheim said the Defense
Secretary is unfairly char-
acterized as anti-Israel by
American Jews who do them-
selves a disservice, he said,
by "seeing U.S. officials as
either black or white, all
good or all bad."
If there is a lesson to be
learned from the Lavi affair,
which has seen the U.S. put
in about $1 billion in the last
several years, it is that
"these projects should be
examined early on so that the
real costs, in dollars and in
other ways, can be analyzed,"
Zakheim concluded.
Sadat Receives
JNF Award
New York — Jihan Sadat,
widow of Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat, received the
Jewish National Fund's
Peace Award of the Interna-
tional Peace Park Project at a
recent reception held in her
honor at the Stanhope Hotel
in New York City.
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