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Groups Issue
Bosnia Statement
Washington (JTA) — Five
American Jewish groups
have joined with American
Arab, Moslem and Christian
groups in a statement urg-
ing President Bush and
President-elect Bill Clinton
to "take whatever steps
necessary" to save the peo-
ple of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Many Jewish groups, see-
ing parallels between the
Nazi Holocaust and the
"ethnic cleansing" inflicted
upon Bosnian Moslems by
Serbs, have been active in
recent months in urging
stronger U.S. action to help
the Bosnian people.
Jewish leaders said that
while such joint Jewish-
Arab-Moslem cooperation
was not unprecedented, it
was unusual.
"It is not unrelated to the
situation in Bosnia," said
Andrew Baker, director of
European affairs for the
American Jewish Com-
mittee, one of the groups
signing the statement,
which was released at a
news conference.
Mr. Baker said that in the
past few months there has
been "a lot of back and for-
th" among the various
groups to try to "join forces
on this issue."
Mark Pelavin, Washing-
ton representative for the
American Jewish Congress,
another organization sign-
ing the statement, said that
part of the importance of
Wednesday's joint news con-
ference was that "we were
putting aside our differences
to work together."
The coalition of 10 groups
called on the U.S. govern-
ment to "provide for the
defense of the people of
Bosnia," either by direct
military action or by lifting
the arms embargo.
In addition, the groups
called for enforcement of the
no-fly zone over Bosnia, for a
recognition of "ethnic clean-
sing" as genocide and for
admission into the United
States of at least 25,000
refugees from the former
Yugoslavia, under emergen-
cy provisions of the U.S.
Refugee Act.
Jason Isaacson, one of the
organizers of the news con-
ference, said the experience
was "heartening and fas-
cinating." In over one hour,
he said, "the words 'the
Middle East' never came up,
and maybe that's un-
precedented."
Mr. Isaacson, who is direc-
tor of government and inter-
national affairs at AJCom-
mittee, said there would be
follow-up meetings among
the groups joining in the
statement.
Mr. Pelavin of AJCongress
said his group had worked in
the past with the National
Association of Arab Ameri-
cans. The two groups recent-
ly put out a joint statement
on the importance of the
peace process, he said.
Khalil Jahshan, executive
director of the National
Association of Arab Ameri-
cans, also cited the joint
briefing with the
AJCongress as "heralding a
new spirit of identifying
areas of common concern."
Arab and Jewish groups
had worked together
"sporadically" on domestic
issues, Jahshan said, but un-
Though
cooperation
was not
unprecedented, it
was unusual.
til recently, there had been
"no systematic effort" to join
together on issues of foreign
policy.
The news conference, he
said, is the second such
event.
"We welcome it," Mr.
Jahshan said. "Despite diff-
erent perspectives on the
Arab-Israeli conflict, there
are plenty of issues we can
work on to advance."
In addition, Mr. Pelavin
said, AJCongress has work-
ed with the American
Muslim Council on the Re-
ligious Freedom Restoration
Act, legislation supported by
a coalition of religious
groups. The bill would make
it harder for the government
to encroach upon religious
practices.
The statement followed a
Dec. 22 rally in Washington
staged by a coalition of 24
Jewish groups to push for
stronger U.S. action on
Bosnia. Jewish women's
groups staged a rally the
same day in New York to
protest the mass rape and
sexual abuse of thousands of
women in the former
Yugoslav republic.