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BLOOMFIELD 855-5822 MAPLE (at CRANBROOK) BIRMINGHAM 433-3070 ichard Hellman, a pro-Israel activist, came to the realiza- tion one day that many of his fellow Christians do' not understand that Israel "needs to be supported polit- ically as well as through prayer and understanding." So last year year, Hellman created the Christians' Israel Public Action Cam- paign, which joined the American Israel Public Af- fairs Committee as the only pro-Israel groups registered to lobby Congress. CIPAC's $100,000 budget — virtually all raised from "Christians at the grassroots across America" — pales in comparison to AIPAC's $9.6 million budget, so its board members will also serve as pro-bono staff and lobbyists. CIPAC so far has just two board members, Hellman and Cal Hubbard, a Baltimore, Md., resident who is also a U.S. regional representative of the Inter- national Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. Various pro-Israel Chris- tian groups have reacted positively to CIPAC, in- cluding the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy, Bridges for Peace and Christian Friends of Israel, the Springfield, Mo.,-based Churches United for Israel and the New York- based National Christian Leadership Council for Israel. "Our positions are not necessarily governed by what they say, and we don't attribute our positions to them, but we want to make sure that they are basically supportive," said Hellman. He expects to be able to rep- resent them at congressional hearings discussing issues affecting Israel. Hellman is a member of AIPAC and Americans for a Safe Israel. He has testified before House and Senate committees on legislation to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and prepared proclamations for the first two international Christian Zionist con- gresses, in 1985 and 1988. AFSI sponsored Hellman's trip to Geneva last December, where he gave a press conference opposing the U.S. decision at the time to open a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Hellman said that when he was growing up, "I looked at Israel as a small and strug- gling state and I had a lot of respect. I went through the whole ethos of the Exodus, the book and the movie, and so forth, but I don't think that it was in the forefront of my thought." But when he became a born-again Christian in the early 1970s, "The Bible became exciting. Israel became real and I took a lot more interest in it," he said. On Hellman's first visit to Israel in 1976, he met with Israel's environmental pro- tection service and accepted an offer to work in Israel to help prepare new envi- ronmental regulations and treaties. He ended up stay- ing seven years. Hellman said CIPAC is needed because there has been "a stalemate achieved by the pro-PLO and pro-Arab forces here in the United States." It was wrong this fall "for the President to take weeks to decide whether he really wanted to meet with (Israeli) Prime Minister (Yitzhak) Shamir," he said. "Things like this would not have happened in years past." Among the top items on CIPAC's agenda are to end the U.S. dialogue with the PLO and to encourage Secre- tary of State James Baker to visit Israel. Hellman said that Baker, who is trying to gain support for Israel's May 14 election plan for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, "will soon see that that's a loser." Hellman said he is worried that if elections process doesn't work out, the United States will "perhaps to some extent withdraw support for Israel." CIPAC also plans to speak out on Soviet Jewry issues and against anti-Semitism. "We think that the Holocaust should be re- membered and that those who perpetrated it should be apprehended, should be tried and should be punished," he said. Hellman rejected the no- tion that conservative Chris- tian support for Israel as an anti-communist force in the Middle East will decline because of a diminishing Soviet threat. ❑ Jewish Telegraphic Agency < c_/