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and Prime Minister Shamir
disliked each other and their
relationship was lousy.
As a result, the volunteer
and professional leaders of
several national Jewish
organizations became in-
volved as intermediaries, go-
betweens and unofficial ad-
visers, trying to bridge the
gap between Washington
and Jerusalem throughout a
number of crises. Besides
AIPAC, the American Jew-
ish Congress and the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations were involved
in this heady process.
One national Jewish
leader acknowledged that
"we went beyond our role
these last few years." He
defined "we" in the sense of
national Jewish groups and
said that it is neither
healthy nor natural for such
groups to be as intimately
involved, on a day to day
level, with "all elements of
government."
He said he was pleased
that Mr. Rabin was reclaim-
ing Israel's role in dealing
directly with Washington
and that, with the exception
of a crisis, American Jewish
organizations should be
more involved educationally
and less politically with
Israel.
They're often entwined,
though. Mr. Rabin seems set
in his views about how best
to deal with Washington but
he may be living in the past.
As a sabra (or native Israeli),
he is said to have little
respect for Diaspora Jewry,
and believes that American
Jews should not play a
pivotal role in Washington-
Jerusalem diplomacy.
But he's missing the point.
They already do.
The American Jewish
community is far more polit-
ically sophisticated and suc-
cessful than it was during
the 1970s when Mr. Rabin
was ambassador to Wash-
ington. He, like Mr. Bush,
favors a president-to-
president relationship,
which is fine as long as the
two men in power get along.
But he would be making a
serious mistake to discount
the importance of Congress,
a bastion of pro-Israel sen-
timent, and American Jew-
ish leadership, part of whose
role it is to educate Congress
about the historical, strate-
gic, diplomatic, political and
moral importance of the
U.S.-Israel relationship.
(This is especially true in an
election year when up to one-
third of the next Congress
will be made up of freshman,
many of whom may be un-
aware of what Israel means,
Yitzhak Rabin:
A new course.
and has meant, to America.)
While Israel, the ad-
ministration and/or Con-
gress gets the credit for such
major successes as opening °
the gates of the Kremlin for
Jewish emigration, rescuing
Ethiopian Jews or overturn- 77 ,
ing the UN resolution on
Zionism-as-racism, it is the c ---
American Jewish leadership ,
that has played a major role
in making these top-level
agenda issues.
Governments act out of po-
litical, not humanitarian,
motivation. And it is Ameri-
can Jewry that has been
behind the scenes, on issue
after issue, doing the
motivating.
Mr. Rabin will come to
learn that there is more to ‘,
influencing U.S. policy than
knocking at the White
House door. I hope he doesn't
learn it the hard way.
The sooner he appreciates _
the efforts of Congress and
American Jewry, and works
with them rather than dis-
counting their importance,
the better off he, and the
state of Israel, will be. ❑
NEWS
Honors Awarded
Nurse, Sculptor
Washington (JTA) —
Thelma M. Schorr, of New
York was the first recipient
of Hadassah's new Kaplan-
Landy "Outstanding Ameri-
can Jewish Nurse" award.
Ms. Schorr was given the
award, named for the first
American nurses sent by
Hadassah to Palestine, at
Hadassah's 78th national
convention.
Israeli sculptor Igael
Tumarkin was named the
grand prize winner of
Japan's Rodin Grand Prize
Exhibition. The $64,000
cash award was given for his
sculpture, Macht Arbeit Frei?