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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1991
imes continue to be
tough at B'nai B'rith
International, the
globe-spanning Jewish
organization that is wrestl-
ing with a $2.5 million
budget deficit.
Last summer, incoming
B'nai B'rith president Kent
Schiner promised a major
shakeup in the group's .
moribund fund raising
efforts and hinted that the
budget squeeze might result
in layoffs.
The new fund-raising
efforts have not yet borne
fruit —and as a result, in re-
Kent Schiner:
Fund raising failed.
cent weeks the axe has
started to fall at B'nai
B'rith's 16th St. head-
quarters.
"It's difficult to give
precise numbers," said a
B'nai B'rith spokesman.
"The reductions have been
recommended by a financial
management committee,
and they have to be ratified
by the board of governors.
We're talking about a total
of some 15 people, here in
Washington and in the
field."
The layoffs will include
workers at all levels —in-
cluding a few department
heads. The most sweeping
changes are expected to
occur in the fund raising and
membership departments.
Consul Says Israel's
Losing Propaganda War
SAVINGS
FDIC
Insured
They're Sharpening Up
The Axe At B'nai B'rith
If nothing else, Dr.
Yitschak Ben Gad's new
book should do well just be-
cause of its title: Politics,
Lies and Videotape.
Mr. Ben Gad, recently ap-
pointed as Israel's consul-
general in the Midwest, was
in the country to spread his
message that Israel may be
losing the propaganda war.
"Israel simply does not
relate to public relations as a
front in this ongoing war,"
he said. "Israel has won all
the wars on the battlefield —
but lost all the propaganda
wars."
But Israel has not recog-
nized the value of public re-
lations, an attitude going
back to David Ben Gurion's
assertion that it is more im-
portant what the Jews do
than what the non-Jews
think.
"That may have been the
proper conception back
then," said Mr. Ben Gad.
"But when you need $3
billion from the United
States every year, what the
non-Jews think certainly is
important." Mr. Ben Gad,
whose father was the chief
rabbi of Libya, hopes that
his book will help policy-
makers here understand the
realities behind the pro-
paganda in the region.
At a reception in Washing-
ton, participants each con-
tributed $15; the proceeds
will all go towards the pur-
chase of Mr. Ben Gad's
books, which will then be
distributed to key members
of the House and Senate.
Shamir Adviser Warns
Of Terrorism Upswing
The administration re-
mains confident that the
Gulf war has opened up new
opportunities for peace in
the Middle East.
But a recent visitor to
Capitol Hill warned that one
of the darker realities of the
region may actually be on
the upswing.
Yigal Cannon, Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Shamir's ad-
viser on terrorism, was in
town to speak to an interna-
tional security organization
and meet with friends on
Capitol Hill.
Mr. Cannon's basic mes-
sage was a simple one.
"Terrorism will continue,
and may even intensify," he
told fellow security profes-
sionals. "Iraq's defeat could
trigger a new wave of
violence. This has been our
experience in Israel; follow-
ing every defeat of Arab
countries, terrorism increas-
ed in an attempt to achieve,
at least in part, what the
shattered Arab armies had
failed to do."
Mr. Carmon responded to
one of the lingering
mysteries of the Gulf war —
why Saddam Hussein's
promise to unleash a
worldwide wave of anti-
American terrorism failed to
materialize.
"The main explanation,"
he said, "is that during the
war the terrorists were not
able to act freely in Western
countries. This was due to
the fact that most of these
countries adopted during the
war a new policy regarding
terrorism. The passive and
politically tolerant approach
which characterized the
previous Western attitude
towards terrorists turned
into a firm and unyielding
attitude."
But terrorism remains a
serious threat because the
root causes — state support
for terrorism and the Middle
East's regional culture of
violence — have not chang-
ed, Mr. Cannon warned.
Arabs Deny
Visas To Senator
Washington (JTA) — The
Saudi and Kuwaiti govern-
ments denied visitors' visas
to Sen. Frank Lautenberg
(D N.Y.) because his pass-
port contained Israeli en-
trance stamps.
The move, a somewhat
unexpected happening
following the Persian Gulf
war, was denounced by
Melvin Salberg, national
chairman of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, during meetings of
the group held in Washington.
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