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A First for Podhorelz:
Criticism for Israel
Shunting aside his "moral
qualms" about the impropri-
ety of U.S. Jews criticizing
Israel, Norman Podhoretz, ed-
itor-in-chief of Commentary,
takes Israel to task in a five-
page manifesto in his maga-
zine entitled, "A Statement on
the [Mideast] Peace Process."
To Mr. Podhoretz, Ameri-
can Jews emboldened Israel's
enemies when they criticized
Israel's security policies in the
past, especially when the
Likud Party was in power and
Israel was widely unpopular.
Only those "whose lives
were actually on the line," he
writes, had "the standing to
criticize what Israel was do-
ing; any American Jew who
wanted to acquire such stand-
ing had only to board a plane
for Tel Aviv and claim citi-
zenship under the Law of Re-
turn."
Mr. Podhoretz gives two
reasons for now reversing
himself. Neither has anything
to do with just getting off a
plane in Tel Aviv.
• Reason No. 1: U.S. Jews'
criticism "assumes an entire-
ly different weight" than it
had when the U.S. "was try-
ing to force Israel into taking
steps the Israelis considered
threatening to their security."
Today, Washington and Jeru-
salem are both convinced that
the peace talks will produce
Israeli-Arab amity. Agree-
ment between the two capi-
tals on Arab-Israel peace was
rare in the recent past and,
especially, during the Bush
administration.
• Reason No. 2: Criticizing
Israel was politically and
morally different when it was
being attacked "by everyone."
The atmosphere is different
now, writes Mr. Podhoretz,
"when [Israel's] policies are
meeting with general ap-
proval."
Having
ambivalently
crossed his moral Rubicon,
Mr. Podhoretz declares that
"the peace process is a trap
from which it will be very
hard for Israel to escape."
He believes that Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra-
bin is willing to grant auton-
omy to Palestinians — not
eventual statehood. Mr. Ra-
bin has long opposed state-
hood, and Mr. Podhoretz
believes that it is part of
Palestinians' "phased plan" to
eventually takeover Israel
proper.
He's also convinced that the
current "love affair with Is-
rael will continue as long as
Israel goes on doing what the
United States wants it to do.
But when the time comes for
Israel to say 'No' to the trans-
formation of autonomy into
full Palestinian statehood, the
affair will turn sour and
Washington will turn on a
rather different kind of heat."
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Baxter International
Invests In Israel
Washington (JTA) — Baxter
International Inc., the Il-
linois-based medical supply
company assessed a record
fine last month by the U.S.
government for compliance
with the Arab boycott of
Israel, has agreed to invest
$10 million in the Jewish
state.
Under terms of a combined
settlement of three
shareholder suits brought
against Baxter in the past
two years, the company will,
within five years, invest the
money in research and de-
velopment projects in Israel,
Baxter spokesman Geoffrey
Fenton said.
The shareholder lawsuits
were spurred by the
government's investigation
of the firm, which began in
1990. The terms of the set-
tlement are subject to ap-
proval by shareholders and
the Delaware Chancery
Court.
Seventy-five percent of the
profits from the investment
will be reinvested in similar
projects in Israel over a
period of 15 years.
"We are delighted," said
Will Maslow, editor of the
American Jewish Congress
publication Boycott Report.
The Jewish community has
been active in pressing offi-
cials to work toward ending
the boycott.
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