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Israel. "Once you're con-
fronted with something
someone else has put for-
ward, the measure (of suc-
cess) should be how you
turn it to your advantage,"
Mr. Baker said of the deci-
sion.
Mr. Baker's relationship
with former Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir
could at best be termed
chilly. Soon after Mr. Shamir
was reelected, Mr. Baker
said he would have to give up
trying to arrange peace talks
if Israel maintained its
hawkish stance. "Everybody
over there should know that
the telephone number (of the
White House) is 1-202-456-
1414," he said. "When you're
serious about peace, call us."
The loan guarantee issue
— last year, Israel request-
ed $10 billion in loan guar-
antees, to help resettle Soviet
Jews — has been another
point of contention. The Bush
administration's objection to
the loans, repeatedly reiter-
ated by Mr. Baker, was
sparked by continued con-
struction of Israeli settle-
ments in Judea and Samaria.
While orchestrating the
Middle East peace talks, Mr.
Baker made six visits to Is-
rael throughout the summer
of 1991. During virtually
each of Mr. Baker's trips, Mr.
Shamir established a new
settlement.
And, of course, there was
the "F— the Jews, they don't
vote for us anyway," thing —
Mr. Baker's response to those
Jews who don't like Bush pol-
icy.
Not all Jewish groups are
ready to denounce Mr. Bak-
er. Since President Bush
came to power, Israel-U.S.
relations have seen "tremen-
dous highs and lows," ac-
cording to American Jewish
Congress Washington repre-
sentative Mark Pelavin. And
just as Mr. Baker must share
the blame in holding up the
loan guarantees, so he must
be credited with orchestrat-
ing the Middle East peace
talks, Mr. Pelavin said.
"There are a number of
very positive things the ad-
ministration has done, both
in terms of foreign policy and
strengthening the U.S.-Israel
relationship," added Matt
Brooks, executive director of
the (Republican) National
Jewish Coalition. He credits
Mr. Baker in large part for
convening Middle East peace
talks, "with real progress be-
ing made, on terms favorable
to Israel."
The negotiations, which
began following the end of
the Gulf War in 1991,
marked the first time Arabs
and Israel sat down together
to talk peace.
Statements Mr. Baker
made while arranging the ne-
gotiations with Arab and Is-
raeli leaders often contain
the expected political jargon.
He doesn't express anger or
condemnation, but rather
"disappointment" when par-
ties reject his proposals.
At the same time, Mr.
Baker assured then-Foreign
Minister David Levy that
U.S. commitment to Israel is
"firm. That will not change;
that will not waiver." And
while he agrees with Hosni
Mubarak's suggestion that
Israel stop settlements in
Judea and Samaria, he does
not hesitate to tell the Egypt-
ian president that it's time
for the Arabs to end their
boycott of Israel.
In addition to his work on
"There are a
number of very
positive things the
administration
has done."
the peace talks, Mr. Baker
was instrumental in seeing
that the U.N. resolution
equating Zionism and racism
was overturned and securing
the release of Soviet, Ethiopi-
an and Syrian Jews, Mr.
Brooks said.
Bush and Baker have their
gaffes when it comes to the
Jewish community, Mr.
Brooks said. "But we've had
differences with every ad-
ministration, though we tend
to forget that."
Ann Arbor resident Robert
Teeter is serving as Bush
campaign chairman and
chief political strategist. He
is head of the Coldwater
Corp., a consulting and re-
search firm specializing in
strategic business planning,
policy analysis and develop-
ment, public opinion analy-
sis and public affairs.
Mr. Teeter was for three
years, beginning in 1961, an
instructor at Albion College.
He later was active with the
Republican State Committee
and on behalf of gubernator-
ial candidate George Rom-
ney. He became a Bush
associate 20 years ago, and
in 1988 joined the Bush pres-
idential campaign as senior
adviser, where he was re-
sponsible for planning and
strategy.
As Mr. Bush's chief polit-
ical strategist, Mr. Teeter, 53,
is responsible for developing
campaign themes, such as
the "family values" leitmo-
tif that has characterized the
Bush-Quayle ticket. He has
been described as a pragma-
tist who, like other Bush
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