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Drugs War Or Star Wars?
AIPAC Is Caught In Crossfire
amendment, which is due for
Senate action this summer.
"We're concerned that this
amendment will generate
similar amendments," said
Mark Pelavin, assistant
Washington representative
for the group. "We've had sup-
port from about 20 different
groups so far, from Jewish
organizations and civil liber-
ties groups to the American
Baptist Churches. A lot of
people are upset by this
amendment."
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
T
he American Israel
Public Affairs Corn-
mittee (AIPAC), the
big pro-Israel lobby group, got
caught in some legislative
cross fire last week that
renewed complaints about the
group's alleged pro-
Republican tilt.
The issue came up during
debate over the massive sup-
plemental appropriations bill,
the legislative catchall
designed to fund critical pro-
grams through the end of the
fiscal year.
In the course of the debate,
a measure was offered by Rep.
Les AuCoin, (D-Ore.), and
Rep. George Miller, (D-Calif.),
that would have transferred
money from the "star wars"
program to the war on drugs.
Not surprisingly, the
amendment produced a
strong reaction from the
Department of Defense and
from House conservatives.
House sources say that op-
ponents of the amendment
went to AIPAC's director, Tom
Dine, and requested a letter
opposing the amendment. Ac-
cording to these sources, Dine
was convinced that the Arrow
missile — a project viewed as
critical to Israel's defense
needs — would be jeopardized
by the transfer of SDI money
to the war on drugs.
Dine complied. The letter,
according to Rep. Barney
Frank, (D-Mass.), was
"somewhat ambiguous." The
Republicans, Frank sug-
gested, used this ambiguity to
suggest all-out AIPAC opposi-
tion to the funding transfer.
The result was an im-
mediate outcry by some of
Israel fiercest supporters on
the Hill.
Frank suggested that Dine
was pressured into acting
hastily on the issue. Other
Congressional sources sug-
gest that AIPAC's top lob-
byist, Ester Kurz, was atten-
ding markups for another
bill, and was not consulted on
the letter.
"It was a major strategic
mistake," said one top con-
gressional staffer. "When peo-
ple like Larry Smith get mad
at AIPAC, you have to worry
about their credibility with
the Democrats."
But generally, House
Republicans came in for the
brunt of the criticism. "It was
an outrageous effort to
manipulate Israel and AIPAC
to get opposition to the
Clayman Says
Palestinians Have
Different Thrust
Barney Frank:
Dine was forced to act.
amendment," Frank said in
an interview. "It was a
shameful effort to play on
Israel's vulnerability for par-
tisan reasons:'
The AuCoin/Miller bill
went down to defeat.
House Passes
Confusing School
Prayer Bill
Jewish groups are beginn-
ing to respond to the
legislative sneak-attack by
Rep. William E. Dannemeyer,
(R-Calif.), on the issue of
school prayer.
Recently, Dannemeyer in-
troduced an amendment to a
vocational education
reauthorization bill pro-
hibiting local jurisdictions
that receive vocational educa-
tion money from banning
voluntary school prayer.
The amendment passed by
a wide margin. "Basically, a
lot of representatives didn't
really know what they were
voting for," said one
legislative aide. "It was the
end of the day, there was a lot
of confusion on the floor, and
it just slipped through
without much debate."
Several Jewish represen-
tatives voted for the measure,
including Rep. Ron Wyden,
(D-Ore.), and Rep. Dan
Glickman, (D-Kans.). A
spokesman for Glickman's of-
fice confirmed that the fact
that the amendment was
sprung on the floor only
minutes before the vote con-
fused many legislators.
"There was no time for
reading it; only after the vote
did people realize what had
happened."
Last week, the American
Jewish Congress began cir-
culating a letter opposing the
The American Jewish Con-
gress' man in Jerusalem
came to Capitol Hill recently
with a dose of strong
medicine for a prominent
group of legislators.
"What I've really been try-
ing to do is give people some
perspective that they aren't
getting in the press," said
David Clayman, who has
been serving in Jerusalem for
almost 19 years. "What the
Palestinians are saying
privately — not in the
presence of other Palestinians
— is much more moderate
that we've been led to believe.
I can't judge their sincerity, or
how widespread these sen-
timents are. But they told me
that they were interested in
talking about arrangements
other than a Palestinian
state."
In a series of meetings on
the Hill, including a luncheon
hosted by Rep. Stephen
Solarz, (D-N.Y.), and attended
by leading members of the
House Foreign Affairs Corn-
mittee, Clayman challenged
the notion that the Palestine
Liberation Organization's
position is essentially
unchanged.
"Merely to say that nothing
new is being said is a delu-
sion," he said. "The PLO
leadership is saying new
things. It's still questionable
about whether they are
sincere. But we need to hold
their noses to the grindstone
and put these new words to
the test."
Clayman said that his an-
nual trip to the United States
was particularly disturbing
this year.
"I have seen a tremendous
consternation over the whole
`Who is a Jew' issue among
American Jews. But that's
just a symptom of a much
broader malaise — the
realizatidn that Israel is not
the Israel of ilir6it dreams:'
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