Israel Aid
Is Threatened

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

ewish leaders are deep-
ly concerned that
Washington's $3
billion aid for Israel, which
has become an almost
automatic annual affair,
could be jeopardized by the
sinking economy.
Pro-Israel organizations
are developing strategies for
dealing with that possibility,
especially in light of last
week's vote in the House on
the foreign aid authorization
bill.
In theory, it was a
somewhat meaningless vote.
The authorization bill just
sets out broad guidelines for
how foreign aid money
should be spent; the money
is actually doled out in an
appropriations bill, or — in
this case — in one of those
"continuing resolutions"
that give the appropriations
and budget processes a kind
of circus quality.
And the president had al-
ready promised to veto the
bill, which passed both
houses of Congress, because
of language on family plann-
ing and cargo preferences.
In an elaborate bit of
legislative legerdemain,
congressional leaders had
agreed to approve the con-
ference report, wait for the
presidential veto, then strip
out the "offensive" language
and send it back to the
White House.
But something unexpected
happened when the House
took up the bill report.
In a stunning turnabout,
the surge of anti-foreign aid
sentiment swept over Wash-
ington like a sudden and
vicious storm, and the con-
ference report was swept to a
resounding 262-159 defeat.
Jewish organizations feel
doubly stressed. If the econ-
omy goes into the stall that
people here now seem to ex-
pect, Jewish groups will
have to work harder to pro-
tect Israel's foreign aid
allotment.
At the same time, Jewish
groups continue to see the
effects of the lingering reces-
sion on their own balance
sheets.
The combination of grow-
ing social needs of the Jew-
ish community, declining
revenues as Jewish con-
tributors are squeezed dry
by the recession, and the
need to fight for foreign aid
in a difficult environment,
has Jewish leaders wor-
ried. ❑

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