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That strategy began with a massive effort to have Jews around the country meet with their congressional representatives over the summer It ended with last month's National Leader- ship Action Day, a high- visibility effort designed, in part, to put the president on notice that the pro-Israel community meant business about the loan guarantees. But because of President Bush's passion on the set- tlements question, the high visibility served mostly as an irritant. "There are obviously ways of bring power to bear on legislators without a march on Washington," said Ted Mann, a former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and current- ly a leader of Project Nishma, a group that com- bines a rejection of the Mid- dle East status quo with a heavy emphasis on Israel's security needs. "We've been doing that for years. So why this public thing? We could have done as well without the public expression," he said. 0 We Buy And Sell Used Computers 1393 S. WOODWARD AVD, BIRM., MI 48009 Continued from preceding page An Overplayed Hand DESKTOP PUBLISHING LASER PRINTING FULL PAGE SCANNING WE LEASE TO BUSINESSES AND MUCH MUCH MORE WE NEED THE FOLLOWING MEN'S WATCHES Wrong IN THE ORCHARD MALL WEST BLOOMFIELD n a strategic level, some Jewish acti- vists are quietly arguing that the tremendous emphasis placed on the loan guarantee fight — it was called the most important battle since the unsuccessful 1981 effort to stop the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia — may have been a mistake. Jewish groups lit fires under their memberships, and an unprecedented number of Jews away from the traditional political hothouses of Washington and New York dove into the fray. The effort gathered a momentum that surprised even the most optimistic Jewish leaders. With surging sentiment in favor of the loan guarantees, it suddenly became an "all or nothing" fight. There was little talk of compromise, of quiet give-and-take with the administration. The stakes increased fur- ther over the summer, when Mr. Bush and other ad- ministration officials dropped broad hints that they would link support for the loan guarantees to Israel's settlements policies. Pro-guarantee groups re- sponded with tough talk designed to counter the perceived muscle flexing from the White House — all based on the incorrect assumption that when _push came to shove, the president would back off. "In the power equation, Shamir and AIPAC overplayed their hand," said David Cohen, co-director of the Center for Israeli Peace and Security, an affiliate of Israel's Peace Now move- ment, a group that sup- ported the loan guarantees. "Where the community went wrong was that you don't pull off a confrontation unless you know you have the votes to accomplish your "In the power equation, Shamir and AIPAC overplayed their hand:' David Cohen, Center for Israeli Peace and Security objectives. If you don't have that power, you keep the pot stirring, you don't draw the line in the dust. The first thing they did was draw the line in the dust." When the administration called for a 120-day delay in the loan guarantee legisla- tion, Mr. Cohen said, the pro-Israel community reacted with indignation. "They made it a do or die issue on timing, not on the basic principal — and that's a very high-risk tactic," he said. Publicly, Jewish leaders are insisting that the tremendous emphasis placed on the loan guarantee fight was not misplaced, given Israel's tremendous needs. But in private, many of these same leaders are angry that Israel may have led them into a major battle that was doomed from the start. From the outset, pro-Israel activists knew the set- tlements issue was their Achilles heel. Now they are saying that, in retrospect, they think they did not state their misgivings strong enough to Jerusalem. 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