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2, 1988

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altering a country's status
under the General Systems of
Preferences (GSP) is an in-
terdepartmental matter.
A State Department
spokesman refused to
comment.
The AAADC petition is the
first the committee has ever
filed against Israel with the
Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative.
American Jewish Congress
President Robert Lifton de-
nounced the AAADC's move,
calling it "a politically
motivated decision which
targets for punitive action
one of our closest democratic
allies!'
Lifton
labeled
the
American decision to in-
vestigate the charges against
Israel, "a thinly disguised
device to threaten Israel with
`punishment' for disagreeing
with the administration's
views on security measures
against Palestinian rioters in
the territories!'
The Israel Task Force of the
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory will meet
later this month to consider
appearing with the Jewish
Labor Committee at the
hearing.
In addition to the petition,
9 Democratic congressmen
— including George Crockett
Jr., John Dingell and John
Conyers of Michigan — wrote
a letter to U.S. Trade
Representative Clayton Yeut-
ter, urging him to investigate
Israel's alleged mistreatment
of Palestinian laborers.
Dingell chairs the influen-
tial House Energy and Com-
merce Committee.
Dingell's press spokesman,
Dennis Fitzgibbon, said the
congressman's interest in the
matter is simply "to get the
facts out. His whole concern
is labor rights!'
Fitzgibbon added that
Dingell never said all the in-
formation in the AAADC
petition is true, "he's only
calling for an investigation."
Dingell was contacted by
Crockett to sign the letter,
Fitzgibbon said.
Rumors that the AAADC
was about to introduce the
petition against Israel began
this summer. Herb Magidson,
Jewish Labor Committee
president, sent a letter on
Aug. 12 to the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative
asking that the AAADC's
petition be rejected.
A spokesman for the Trade
Representative said these
were the only two documents
regarding the matter that of-
fice received.
JLC officials are optimistic
that while the Trade
Representative ignored that
initial request, he will not

alter Israel's favorable trade
status at the October hearing.
One observer commented
that the United States would
hardly condemn Israel in
view of the Arabs' many
violations against trade
unions in their own nations.
Trade Representative
spokeman Holmes stressed
that the United States is "not
looking for excuses to take
GSP away from anyone by
any stretch of the imagina-
tion."
He added, however, that
"we've been getting a lot of
pressure from the Hill to ac-
cept low-threshold cases" —
cases with limited evidence.
He did not elaborate.
Holmes said that if Israel
can "make a good case that
it's improving its record, or
that the record is not as bad
as the petition says, I imagine
it will continue to receive
GSP."
Holmes said that only a
very few countries —
Nicaragua, Paraguay,
Romania and Chile — have
had their GSP status revoked.
Other nations to be in-
vestigated at the Trade
Representative's October
hearing are Syria, Malaysia,
Burma, Haiti and Liberia.
Jewish leaders have long
lauded Israel's treatment of
its Arab workers. A 1985
report, "Perspectives on
Palestinian Women" by Dr.
Mala 'Pabory, presented before
the participants in the United
Nations Decade for Women
World Conference, offers
similar praise.
In her report, Dr. Tabory, an
Arab, notes that Arab
workers from the West Bank
and Gaza "recruited through
official channels enjoy legal
equality and similar conch-
tions to Israeli workers. They
enjoy the same right to af-
filiate with trade unions in
Israel or to establish their
own trade unions!'
Dr. Tabory's report further
states that the Histadrut,
Israel's General Federation of
Labor, offers membership to
all workers 16 years and older
"regardless of nationality or
citizenship." The Histadrut
executive committee has
issued guidelines to trade
unions, workers' councils and
workers' committees stating,
"Any worker from the ter-
ritories working in Israel will
enjoy occupational protection
in his workplace and will be
guaranteed all rights, wages,
social benefits, etc., guaran-
teed to workers in the plant
by the work agreement."
The report says the
Histadrut demands the right
to vote, a fair wage, social and
national insurance for all

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