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MR. BUSH—Your "Piece Process"
1 . Do you support the PLO demand for Israel to surrender Judea-
Samaria, Gaza and the eastern part of Jerusalem?
2. Do you support the PLO demand for a corridor connecting
Judea-Samaria and east Jerusalem with Gaza - cutting Israel in
half?
3. Doesn't giving land to the PLO reward them for their cowardly
and horrible terrorism against Jewish men, women and children
and against their fellow Arabs for the past 20 years?
4. Do you support the PLO demand that the 240,000 Jews now
living in the Jewish homeland territories that are to be surrendered
to the Arabs, must be driven out?
5. Do you support the PLO demand that the five million Arabs
being called "Palestinians", now living outside of Israel, to be
granted what is called the "right of return"?
6. Why wouldn't those millions of Arabs settling in the new mini-
state, with no homes or jobs, agitate to take the rest of Israel, as
called for in their PLO Covenant?
7. Why wouldn't the PLO when it gets the land, continue terrorism
or war, so they might get more?
8. What good is a promise by the PLO not to militarize the new
state? With the Third World behind them and the traditional
European indifference to Israel, what difference would it be if the
PLO tore up the peace treaty?
9. Can Israel, to be only nine miles wide in the coastal lowlands,
wide-open, unprotected against terrorist raids and invasion - trust
any international "guarantees" to prevent their annihilation?
1 0. Land-For-Peace to Hitler in 1938 destroyed Europe, killing 37
millionpeople. Why should it work for Israel today?
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United States Doubles
Immigrant Numbers
Washington (JTA) — The
U.S. government will allow
nearly twice as many Soviet
Jews to immigrate here in
, the next year as arrived here
during the past 12 months.
The reason is that far
fewer Soviet Jews than ex-
pected came to the United
States during the 1991 fiscal
year, which ended Sept. 30.
At the Bush administra-
tion's request, Congress had
provided funding for 40,000
Soviet Jews to come, but
largely because of processing
problems in the Soviet
Union, only 26,680 actually
arrived, according to the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society.
For the 1992 fiscal 'year,
which began Oct. 1, the
United States will allow
61,000 refugees to im-
migrate here from the Soviet
Union, including about
50,000 Jews.
The quota, which Presi-
dent Bush officially set Oct.
10, also applies to those who
lived in the Baltic republics
prior to U.S. recognition of
their independence on Sept.
2.
The figure was agreed to
late last month in negotia-
tions with the House and
. Senate Judiciary Com-
mittees. It includes the same
quota of 50,000 Soviet refu-
gees set at the beginning of
the last fiscal year, plus
11,000 refugee slots never
used in 1991.
In fact, 13,320 of the places
set aside for Soviet Jews
were never used in fiscal
year 1991. Why only 11,000
of those places were added to
the 1992 refugee ceiling is
not yet clear.
The 1991 shortfall was
precipitated by a shift in
U.S. refugee processing pro-
cedures, Richard Schifter,
assistant secretary of state
for human rights and hu-
manitarian affairs, explain-
ed.
Prior to October 1989, the
United States processed
refugees from the Soviet
Union in Rome. When it
began processing them at
the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow, the system was
predicated on the Soviets is-
suing exit visas in a four- to
six-month period.
But offices of the OVIR
emigration bureau turned
out to be more arbitrary in
their issuance of exit visas,
awarding them to some
family members and not to
others over a six- to nine-
month span.
As a result, the United
States altered its processing
system in the Soviet Union
by waiting for Soviets to
receive their exit visas
before doing the final U.S.
processing.
Mark Talisman, director of
the Washington office of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, said the bureaucratic
problems "put big holes in
our processing."
But Mr. Schifter told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
prior to addressing the State
of Israel Bonds Organiza-
tion's North American
leadership conference here
that Washington expects the
revised system to be working
well.
In September, 4,163 Soviet
Jewish refugees entered the
United States, the largest
The 1991 shortfall
was precipitated
by a shift in
procedures.
monthly total this year. If
that pace is maintained
through 1992, expectations
of reaching the 50,000 mark
will likely be realized.
Soviet Jewish immigration
to Israel still dwarfs im-
migration to the United
States, but the level of
aliyah has dropped off con-
siderably in recent months.
A total of 9,877 Soviet
Jews arrived in Israel dur-
ing September, and the
government now expects the
year's total to reach only
150,000 by the end of
December.
Mr. Schiller cited Israel's
economic problems as the
main reason why more
Soviet Jews are not leaving
for Israel.
But he said the Soviets are
still imposing two notable
barriers to Jewish emigra-
tion: Visas are denied to
those with alleged access to
state secrets and those with
economic obligations to
relatives.
So-called "poor relative"
cases number in the hun-
dreds, while there remain
around 40 "state secrecy"
denials, Mr. Schifter said.
On the subject of anti-
Semitism, Mr. Schifter
praised Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev for re-
cently speaking out publicly
against it. At the same time,
the assistant secretary of
state delivered a rare per-
sonal attack on Samuel Zivs,
a member of the now-defunct
Soviet Anti-Zionist Com-
mittee.