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Washington (JTA) — A week
after winning an invitation
to meet with President Clin-
ton, Syria has gained an
economic aid package from
Europe.
Jewish leaders here ex-
pressed anger and disap-
pointment about a European
Parliament vote this week to
give $185 million in econ-
omic aid to Syria.
Some Jewish leaders said
after the vote that it would
have been better if the
parliament had waited a few
weeks to see if Syrian Presi-
dent Hafez Assad lived up to
his most recent promises to
allow Syrian Jews to leave
the country.
The European Parliament
is the legislative body of the
European Union, which is
the successor organization to
the European Community. It
was meeting in Strasbourg,
France.
Jewish groups and others
here have taken up the
cause of Syria's Jewish
population, which has been
virtually trapped.
Last month, nine U.S.
Senators wrote to 36 mem-
bers of the European
Parliament, urging them to
oppose aid to Syria because
of the Assad government's
human rights violations.
Jewish officials said that
they had heard that the aid
was conditioned on Syrian
behavior.
For example, they had
heard that the parliament
would annually review
Syria's human rights conch-
tions.
But it remained unclear
exactly how the conditions
would be enforced.
"Our only consolation is
that there will be an annual
review of this aid, and if
Syria's human rights record
does not warrant the aid it
will be stopped," B'nai
B'rith's Ken Schiner said.
Seymour Reich, chairman
of the national task force on
Syrian Jewry of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, said that he
was pleased that the parlia-
ment "will closely monitor
Assad's promise to issue exit
visas to Syrian Jews by the
end of this month."
The parliament granted
Syria about $200 million in
aid in 1992. It had blocked
further aid on several
previous occasions because
of concerns about human
rights in Syria, including
the treatment of the Jews.
Yannis Paleokrassas, a
member of the parliament,
said that Syria is a key ele-
ment in the Middle East
peace process and that it
should not be isolated by
blocking again a financial
aid package.
The parliament's vote was
seen as another triumph for
Mr. Assad, who recently said
his negotiators would return
next month to the Washing-
ton-based peace talks.
While his country remains
on the U.S. list of countries
supporting terrorism, Assad
recently gained the prize of a
Seymour Reich:
Looks for results soon.
promised meeting with Mr.
Clinton next month in
Geneva.
Before Secretary of State
Warren Christopher's an-
nouncement of the meeting,
Mr. Assad had agreed to give
travel documents to Syria's
Jewish population.
Mr. Assad had promised
last year to allow all Syria's
1,350 Jews to travel freely,
but in recent months very
few Jews were allowed out.
Last month, U.S. senators
wrote to the members of the
European Parliament urg-
ing them not to approve the
aid. ❑
In 1930, Louis Bamberger,
founder of one of America's
great department stores, and
his sister gave $5 million to
establish the Institute of
Advanced Study in
Princeton, N.J. Albert Eins-
tein, then a refugee from
Nazi Germany, was among
the first to join the in-
stitute's staff.