THE 19TH UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
ANTIQUES SHOW
OCTOBER
9, 1993 • 11:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.
1993 • 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
OCTOBER 10,
U.S. Aid To Palestinians
Shouldn't Be At Our Expense
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veryone is talking about
investments in the au-
tonomous region. What
will Israel's policy be re-
garding investments in the Jew-
ish settlements in the territories?
Finance Minister Avraham
Shohat offered some answers to
the Jerusalem Post to this and
other questions on the eve of his
visit to Washington last week.
JP: Is your upcoming trip to
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countries in the world that
called for the agreement said
that once there is an agreement
they will help. Well, their time
has come for making good on
their commitments.
JP: One of the criticisms
against the agreement with the
Palestinians is that the defense
establishment was not includ-
ed in the discussions, and as a
result it will not have enough
the United States intended pri-
marily to help raise funds for the
autonomous region?
AS: No. The trip was planned
in advance and is related to my
areas of responsibility. I will be
meeting with investors, the
management of Israel Bonds
and the United Jewish Appeal,
the International Monetary
Fund and a number of foreign
ministers.
JP: The Americans commit-
ted themselves to give $250 mil-
lion to the Palestinians in two
years. Is the money going to
come out of Israel's foreign aid?
AS: I cannot say for certain
about a final decision by the
Americans, the Japanese or the
Europeans. Numbers are being
bandied about, in large sums
and for terms longer than two
years.
I very much hope the Amer-
icans, if they decide to give mon-
ey — which we did not ask
them in any way and do not in-
tend to — do not do so at the ex-
pense of aid to Israel. We are
preparing for a period that will
require a lot of expenses. Peace
expenditures are not smaller
than those for war. It is incon-
ceivable that our aid should be
cut to transfer money to the
Palestinians.
I don't think the Americans
should carry the burden of in-
vesting in the autonomous re-
gion. Rather, most of the
time to adapt to the new reality.
Isn't the economic establishment
facing an even greater chal-
lenge?
AS: Regarding the econom-
ics, there have been discussions
throughout the talks. I have
called a meeting of the cabinet
economic committee to set the
structure and operating proce-
dures so as to coordinate the ac-
tivities of all the ministries in
preparation for the autonomy.
Academic and administrative
studies have been carried out.
Working groups at the bilater-
al talks have also been dealing
with the issue, together with
the Palestinians. We are getting
into intensive activity to set pol-
icy and proposals based on the
agreement in principle. There
is no doubt there is a lot of work,
a lot of details and we have to
avoid making mistakes at this
stage.
JP: Have you decided to
adopt the recommendations of
the Fogel Commission on the
autonomous region?
AS: I accept in principle the
concept of open economies. The
cabinet will still have to discuss
the recommendations and
make a decision. Basically, the
Fogel Commission recommen-
dations that are actually based
on the Ben-Shahar committee
study are acceptable to me.
JP: What is your timetable for
putting in place the economic
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arrangements for the au-
tonomous region?
AS: We have a timetable dic-
tated by the agreement. With-
in a few months, the Civil
Administration will leave Gaza
and Jericho. There also is the
early empowerment phase,
which will take place in all of
Judea and Samaria and will
transfer responsibilities for ed-
ucation, health and the like to
the Palestinians.
The Fogel committee recom-
mendations paint a broad pic-
ture of the economic relations
with the autonomous region,
but lack detail. The particulars,
apparently, will have to wait for
detailed negotiations with the
Palestinians.
JP: With whom will we be
dealing considering they don't
have the institutions and the or-
ganizational infrastructure to
back them up?
AS: They will have to choose
the people to deal with us on
this issue. They also did this
with the joint Jordanian-Pales-
tinian delegation, where they
found Palestinians authorized
to deal with economic matters.
But they don't have the in-
stitutions to back them up. We
wrote that there will be joint
committees that will hold talks
and define the issues and who-
ever comes will come. We won't
negotiate with ourselves. Al-
though there isn't an organized
structure which derives from an
existing government, they cer-
tainly have experts that deal
with the issue. I hope they have
thought out what they want.
JP: The whole world is talk-
ing about aid to the Palestini-
ans, and even is stating
amounts, but the Palestinians
in the territories are not orga-
nized to absorb even a penny
from the promised aid. There
are no financial, voluntary, busi-
ness and other institutions
which will enable them to man-
age projects financed through
aid. Do you have a program to
establish the infrastructure that
will enable the autonomous to
benefit from the aid?
AS: It's true that there will
be a problem. I think, by the
way, that the numbers spoken
about, regarding the capacity to
absorb billions of dollars a year,
are not correct. I don't believe a
relatively small system can ab-
sorb such a large volume of in-
vestments.
The investments which they
can realistically absorb will re-
quire the support of interna-
tional organizations, such as the