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Mr. Bush's 'Anguish'

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wo voices in New York
journalism reacted
quite differently to the
recent exchange of letters
between George Bush and
George Klein, co-chairman
of the pro-Republican Na-
tional Jewish Coalition.
Mr. Klein, a longtime
friend of the president, wrote
him that American Jews
fear that the administra-
tion's policies "isolate" and
delegitimize Israel in the
world arena. Mr. Bush re-
sponded that he had
"anguished" over the $10
billion loan guarantee issue,
and that the "real peace" he
seeks in the Middle East
would assure Arab recogni-
tion of Israel and diplomatic
relations between the long-
time adversaries.
An editorial in the For-
ward said Jews need to be
"spared" the president's
"anguish" because he is
"appeas(ing) Israel's
enemies." As Syria
stockpiles Scud missiles that
can be used for a chemical
attack on Israel, "Mr. Bush
sent an assistant secretary
of state to the Hill to specu-
late that the . . . missiles are
defensive."
The president "waves
away the furor over Dr.
Habash," the Palestinian
terrorist who recently
received medical care in
France, and "has abandoned
the idea of a free Lebanon."
And "he is preparing" to br-
ing Patrick Buchanan into
his campaign for re-election.

Worse, asserted the For-
ward, is that, as Arab states
seem to be preparing to at-
tack Israel, "doubts about
where the American ad-

Pres. Bush:
"Anguish" rejected.
ministration would stand
come a war are deeper than
at any time since 1948."
But Eric Breindel, the New
York Post's editorial page
editor, was more forgiving of
the president. In a column,
Mr. Breindel said the presi-
dent's letter "suggests a
willingness to re-examine
the administration's tone
and public posture" regar-
ding Israel, and the possibil-
ity that he "can be persuad-
ed that his boundless op-
timism (regarding the Mid-
dle East) is groundless."
Yet, Mr. Breindel also
stated that the president's
letter "betrays a major flaw"
in his quest for peace in the
region: He asserts that
major forces in the Arab
world are "ready to reach
out and live in peace with
Israel."
"No evidence" supports
this, wrote Mr. Breindel,
who suggested that "maybe
a suspension of settlement
activity by the Israeli
government — and an
absence of substantive Arab
response — would drive this
rather basic lesson home."

Nasty Is
As Nasty Does

Nasty words beget more
nasty words.
That seems to be the moral
of the March 6 scoop by New
York Post columnist, Ed
Koch, that Secretary of State
James Baker had expressed
his contempt for Israel at a
high-level White House
meeting with the pithy
phrase, "F---'em. They
(the Jews) don't vote for us."
Since then, Al Hunt, the
Wall Street Journal's Wash-
ington bureau chief, has
charged on CNN that Mr.

Koch's column "smacks of a
politically inspired smear"
and that the former mayor
"is even less credible as a
journalist than as a politi-
cian."
In his column last Friday,
Mr. Koch excerpted part of a
letter he sent to Mr. Hunt.
He reiterates his political
career (five terms in Con-
gress, one of three men to
serve three terms as mayor
of New York), and notes that
New York Times columnists
William Safire and Leslie

