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A March Surprise
From Bush?
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
I
t was another week of
frantic damage control
for pro-Israel activists in
Washington as the Bush
Administration leaked that
it was investigating whether
Israel had resold American
weapons technology to such
countries as South Africa
and China.
The disclosures couldn't
have come at a worse time.
Several senators had just
wrapped up a compromise
formula for Israel's request
for $10 billion in loan guar-
antees, which they were pit-
ching to a reluctant ad-
ministration.
That suspicious timing
raised some eyebrows here
and in Israel. As one leading
pro-Israel activist said, "No
one would be surprised if
Israel tried to push the
envelope as far as it could go
in exporting its military
technology in a way it con-
sidered consistent with its
own security. But the fact
that these leaks occurred
now —with the loan guar-
antees at a particularly deli-
cate point and elections
looming in both countries —
is suspicious in the ex-
treme."
In the past, U.S. officials
usually responded to reports
that Israel was selling
military technology to South
Africa and China with a
wink and a nod.
But the administration is
in no mood to trifle with
Israel. More and more, the
White House is looking for
additional, levers to use to
force a freeze on West Bank
settlements — and to in-
fluence Israel's upcoming
election.
"The fact that these leaks
occurred this week were part
of this administration's
underground effort to bring
down the Shamir govern-
ment — a scheme that is
almost sure to backfire,"
said a Democratic con-
gressman to this week's
UJA Young Leadership
meetings in Washington.
The leaks also mirrored
the growing sense that
U.S.-Israeli relations are on
a dangerous downward
spiral.
"The relationship has de-
teriorated," said Jess
Hordes, Washington director
for the Anti-Defamation
League. "Those in the bu-
reaucracy who have been
unhappy with the closeness
of the relationship may now
feel they have a license to
undercut the relationship."
Don't Assume That
9Dukism' Is Dead
Jews heaved a nervous
sigh of relief last week when
former Ku Klux Klan leader
David Duke's candidacy was
buried in Super Tuesday
returns.
But it would be premature
to declare victory over Mr.
Duke's cleaned-up brand of
political bigotry, said Sen. J.
Bennett Johnston, a
Democrat who narrowly
survived a Duke challenge
in the Louisiana Senate race
two years ago.
The senator told the Wash-
ington leadership mission of
the Simon Wiesenthal
Center that the forces that
gave rise to Mr. Duke's can-
didacy are still strong.
"Duke's message . . . is
very appealing," he said. "It
has always been appealing
to talk about immigrants. It
has always been appealing
to talk about scapegoats. It
is very appealing to use wel-
fare as a code word."
President Bush, he said, is
incorporating some of this
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston:
Fight hate-mongerers.
highly charged language
into his own campaign. And
Pat Buchanan, he said, taps
the same angry feelings in
the American public.
The senator urged Jewish
groups to mount a massive
educational campaign to
counter the new generation
of hate-mongerers.