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Sunday, January 10 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. CHECKS ARE PAYABLE TO ORT 40 FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1988 he year's end is an appropriate time to re- flect on what lessons might be learned from the previous 12 months from a pro-Israel perspective. On the positive side, the U.S. Congress' continued sup- port for Israel remained a strong and consistent thread, despite fallout from the Pollard case and Israeli in- volvement in Irangate. In ad- dition to approving $3 billion in economic and military aid, and modifying arms sales to Saudi Arabia, funding was provided for a number of "made in Israel" programs for the U.S. Defense Department which will benefit Israel's economy in future years. In the wake of the Lavi cancella- tion, cooperation in the military sphere between the two countries was also institutionalized. On a less optimistic note, the Gorbachev visit and sum- mit did not appear to signal a change in Soviet emigration (or, for that matter, any other) policies. While the unex- pectedly large turnout in Washington energized the American-Jewish community, its benefits for Soviet Jews re- main to be seen. The change in style from previous Rus- sian leaders, which the media found irresistible, is so far just that. The release of a select group of refuseniks has not been accompanied by a significant increase in overall emigration. What can be hoped for is more pragmatism and less ideology on the part of the new Soviet leadership in deal- ing with Jewish emigration. As a practical matter, it would seem that permitting 50,000 to 100,000 Russian Jews to emigrate over the next two or three years could pay enormous dividends, literally, in terms of trade- and economic benefits that could follow. If this is so, one cannot help but wonder whether Soviet Jews are being held as a diplomatic card for Russia to play in order to be able to play a major role in any future Middle East peace negotiations. The lure of permitting a considerable number of Jews to leave the USSR could be considered irresistible to Israeli leadership, according to Soviet thinking. Otherwise, a policy that continues to an- tagonize and galvanize op- position from an influential and activist American-Jewish community makes little sense from Russia's point of view, particularly if Gorbachev is serious about improving the performance of Soviet economy and satisfying con- sumer demand. A disturbing trend which intensified during 1987 has led some here in Washington to ask whether we are again getting hooked on foreign oil. According to the latest figures, we are importing 43 percent of the oil we are con- suming, and guess which country is now our number one source? No, not neighbor- ing Canada or Mexico — but Saudi Arabia. At the same time that domestic oil production has hit a new low point, we are Arab unrest produced the inevitable statements from our State Department. importing more Arab oil while still placing un- necessary restrictions on off- shore and Alaskan oil drill- ing. Without a coordinated national energy policy con- sisting of greater exploration, conservation, and the development of alternative energy sources, we may be placing our heads in a noose of our own making. It is the kind which is being tighten- ed so slowly that its conse- quences will not be realized until our foreign policies in the Middle East could be stifled. Arab unrest in Gaza and the West Bank at the end of 1987 produced the inevitable statements from our State Department, placing the blame for the violence on lack of progress in finding solu- tions to the Arab-Israel con- flict. These kinds of statements, of course, play right into the hands of rioters by putting the onus on Israel for somehow failing to be more flexible. These simplistic utterances overlook the fact that there are very difficult questions that must be dealt with through patient face-to-face negotiations. Until this process can be started, the status quo is far more preferable than having Israel give in to extremist violence by unilaterally mak- ing concessions in advance of such negotiations. Rioting