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Nielson's Bill Blasting Israel
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E
-ven as Israel began
the process of re-
opening schools in
Gaza and the West Bank, the
issue continued to boil over
here in Washington.
Last week, Rep. Howard C.
Nielson, R-Utah, made good
his promise to re-introduce an
amendment criticizing Israel
for closing the schools.
The amendment first sur-
faced several weeks ago, dur-
ing the debate over the
foreign aid bill, but was
withdrawn due in large part
to the intervention of Rep.
Howard Berman, D-Calif.
This time around, the out-
come was slightly different as
Nielson attempted to attach
an amendment to the foreign
operations bill.
In as strange a coalition as
Capitol Hill has seen in a
long time, Berman and
Nielson, along with Rep.
David Obey, D-Wis., and Rep.
Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio,
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thrashed out a compromise
that began by praising Israel
for beginning to reopen the
schools. The amendment also
urged that the reopened
schools not be used as staging
areas for Palestinian violence.
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Rep. Howard Berman:
Levels charges.
Over on the Senate side, an
amendment critical of Israel
was slated for introduction by
Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I. But
a compromise similar to the
House language was worked
out after intensive negotia-
tions with Sen. Rudy
Boschwitz, R-Minn., and Sen.
Nancy Kassebaum, R-Mo.
After the dust settled, Ber-
man used the legislative
flurry to level charges at the
Arab-American groups that
pressed hard to use the issue
as a platform for blasting
Israel.
"It would be wonderful if
these Arab-American
organizations, and some of
the members of Congress who
are friendly with them, would
start applying pressure on the
Palestinians to work with the
Israelis on the election pro-
cess," he said. "I think there
is a role for their friends in
this country to give them this
message, in much the same
way as many of Israel's
friends gave Israel the
message that they had to
have a peace plan."
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Argentina is beginning a
new era under a Peronist
president, and B'nai B'rith's
International Council is keep-
ing a wary eye on
developments that could
threaten that country's large
Jewish population.
So far, B'nai B'rith's net-
work of Jewish activists in
Argentina sees no signs of the
growing Argentinian-Jewish
exodus that has been reported
by some sources in the Israeli
government.
"There are strong concerns
about economic instability,
and about how this could af-
fect the Jewish community,"
said Warren Eisenberg, direc-
tor of the council "On the
other hand, we are seeing
signs that the Jewish com-
munity wants to work for
stabilization. Despite con-
cerns that the business com-
munity might pull out of the
country, including the Jews,
this has not happened."
The new president, Carlos
Saul Menem, is faced with an
astronomical inflation rate
and a $60 billion foreign debt.
And his Peronist movement
has long been associated with
anti-Semitism.
But Menem has surprised
observers by filling top
government positions with
conservative businessmen in-
stead of Peronist party
loyalists, a move seen as an ef-
fort to jolt the economy out of
its steady slide toward chaos.
Eisenberg and his staff in
Washington are maintaining
close contact with B'nai
B'rith affiliates in Argentina,
and with U.S. policy-makers.
"It's a very fluid situation,"
he said. "We're sending a
clear message; the country
may have severe economic
problems, but let's not look
for scapegoats. So far, we're
encouraged that Menem
seems to be moving very
carefully, in a non-traditional
way."
McClure Amendment
Shot Down Again
Sen. James McClure, R-
Idaho, is a man who
understands persistence.
Last year, McClure's
amendment designed to stif-
fen requirements for granting
Most Favored Nation status
to the Soviet Union ran afoul
of Soviet Jewry activists who
were concerned that the
McClure amendment would
weaken the Jackson-Vanik
amendment, the cornerstone
of U.S. human rights policy
towards the Soviet Union.
After several furious skir-
mishes, the McClure amend-
ment was shot down last
August.
But last week, in a move
that caught Soviet Jewry ac-
tivists by surprise, the
McClure amendment was
resurrected, one of 53 amend-
ments to the State Depart-
ment authorization bill.
"It came out of the blue,"
said Mark Levin, Washington
representative for the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry. "We started getting
calls from all over Capitol
Hill, wondering what was go-
ing on."
Levin swiftly tapped the
group's network of member
organizations, who responded
with calls to key Senate
offices.
"It was all over within an
hour," Levin said. "We were
very pleased that we were
able to react so quickly. Now
is not the time to start
monkeying with Jackson-
Vanik."