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A member of The Detroit Medical Center, affiliated with the School of Medicine, Wayne State University. ©1989 B'nai B'rith Foundation of the United States B'nai B'rith Michigan Regional Council We wish to thank everyone who attended and supported B'nai B'rith's Las Vegas Night, April 28th, Special thanks go to all the workers who helped make the evening a huge success. We couldn't have done it without all of you! Proceeds will benefit our youth-serving agencies: B'nai B'rith Youth Organization and Hillel Foundations on campus. Ralph N. Woronoff President Michigan Regional Council 18 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1991 Jerry Olson Chairman Las Vegas Night Harvey Olson Co-Chairman Las Vegas Night D oes the pro-Israel lobby exert an undue amount of influence on the American foreign policy process? Not according to Mitchell G. Bard, the editor of the Near East Report, who has just published a book devoted to the subject, The Water's Edge and Beyond: Defining the Limits to Do- mestic Influence on United States Middle East Policy. If that sounds more like a doctoral thesis than the latest Robert Ludlum bestseller, it's because the book is based on Mr. Bard's graduate work at UCLA in political science. He said he kept reading about the alleged power of what was usually described as the 'Jewish lobby,' and was interested in looking "in a more academic fashion at the evidence people used to support these kinds of claims." Part of Mr. Bard's research involved a statistical analy- sis of a number of significant policy debates that involved the exercise of Jewish and pro-Israel policy, including the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia, and the Jackson-Vanik amendment, the cornerstone of efforts to aid Soviet Jews. "I also did case studies in the administrative branch, going back to President Truman's policy toward Palestine and to the first sale of Phantom jets to Israel," Mr. Bard said. The results, he said, show- ed that while the pro-Israel lobby does have influence, it is not able to control policy. Pro-Israel groups, his data showed, tend to be more effective in influencing policy decisions made in Congress, especially in the area of aid to Israel. Not surprisingly, he found that pro-Israel influence is weakest in the administra- tion. His analysis also refuted the notion that presidents refrain from making con- troversial decisions regar- ding Israel in election years — an idea that is increasing- ly attractive to pro-Israel ac- tivists as 1992 rolls around. "In reality," he said, "it makes very little difference whether it is an election year or not." Mr. Bard discounted a predictable criticism of his book — that as an employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he is anything but unbiased. "The book was written long before I was affiliated with AIPAC, or had any ex- pectation of working with a pro-Israel group," Mr. Bard said. ❑ Ethiopian Emergency Tel Aviv (JTA) —Israel has begun preparing for the possible mass immigration of 17,000 Ethiopian Jews, as negotiations over their fate continue. The emergency arises from the possibility that rebel forces will soon overthrow the regime of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and enter the capi- tal. Jews there fear that if the rebels take over, they may well put an end to Jew- ish emigration. 4 -4 .4 4 -4 1 .•4 •4 -4