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mined than ever to make
sure that the Shamir
government gets the point.
After the White House ses-
sion, AIPAC president
Meyer Mitchell left for
Israel, reportedly to carry
that message to the Israeli
leadership.
A second reason for the
hard-nosed attitude of Jew-
ish groups toward the loan
guarantee fight involves
their reading the political
tea leaves for 1992.
Trench warfare over the
loan guarantee issue, many
Jewish leaders fear, could
fuel the anti-foreign aid sen-
timent that has flared in the
early stages of the 1992
campaigns.
"There's a greater sense of
reality," said Abraham
Foxman, executive director
of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith. "We
continue to believe that the
loan guarantees are impor-
tant, and that Israel needs
them. But there's a different
mood in the country now.
Nobody who cares about the
issue believes that a public
debate would be constructive
or helpful."
Support for the loan guar-
antees in Congress was wan-
ing even before last week's
expulsions and new set-
tlements.
Last fall, some 73 senators
signed a letter supporting
the loan guarantees. But few
pro-Israel activists expect
that theoretical majority to
hold up if President Bush
decides to vigorously oppose
the loan guarantees — or to
insist on significant conces-
sions by the Israelis.
There is growing support
in the Senate for various
proposals that would link
the guarantees to Israeli
concessions on the set-
tlements question.
In the House, the Dem-
ocratic leadership has taken
some hesitant steps in the
direction of embracing the
"bring America home"
theme that could be the one
issue that galvanizes reces-
sion-battered voters.
Israel's actions last week,
according to several leading
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NOAM M.M. NEUSNER
State
pro-Israel activists, will
simply make it easier for
legislators to quietly swim
with the anti-foreign aid
tide.
Israel's $3 billion annual
foreign aid allotment is very
much in the minds of Jewish
leaders as they gear up for
the loan guarantee debate.
If foreign aid becomes a po-
litical football in 1992, a
rancorous and probably
futile fight over the loan
guarantees could focus un-
wanted attention on the
broader aid program.
At Monday's White House
meeting with Mr. Bush's
chief of staff, Jewish leaders
felt the need to ask the pres-
ident to take some symbolic
action against the anti-
foreign aid trend — perhaps
by including comments sup-
porting aid in his upcoming
state-of-the-union message.
As the loan guarantee
debate approaches, Congress
has quietly turned the issue
over to the administration.
Without significant com-
promises by the Israelis on
the issue of settlements,
Jewish leaders have con-
cluded that it is unlikely
that the president will sign
on to the loan guarantees;
without presidential sup-
port, the loan guarantees
will be dead on arrival when
Israel renews its request.
Last week's events — and
Mr. Shamir's concessions to
advocates of accelerated set-
tlement activity, in par-
ticular — make compromise
less likely.
"These actions are seen by
the president as a continua-
tion of provocative activities
that are grossly insensitive
to the American position,"
said the American Jewish
Congress' Henry Siegman.
The real losers, Mr.
Siegman suggests, are the
Soviet Jews who desperately
need the housing and jobs
that the loan guarantees
will help create — and, even
more importantly, the Jews
who have delayed their
departure from a chaotic
Soviet Union until Israel
deals with its serious ab-
sorption problem. ❑
Yad Ezra's Move
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ad Ezra, in its new
building since
November, is able to
do its job faster and better.
The problem is that it has to.
The kosher food pantry,
which provides food to
families in need, moved into
its new quarters on Harding,
near 11 Mile, in Oak Park.
While the move gives Yad
Ezra much more space to
operate, it also was a move
that the pantry's directors
did not want to have to
make.
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