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ast week's brief Washington
meeting between Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres and President Bill
Clinton was mostly a "touching
base" kind of session. But Mr.
Peres' underlying message came
through loud and clear: time is
running out for the troubled Syr-
ian-Israeli talks.
Unless serious progress is
made on the Syrian-Israeli track
in the next 12 to 18 months, Mr.
Peres told the president, those
negotiations will be in serious
jeopardy.
The United States, he said can
do a real mitzvah by impressing
that fact on Syria's hardheaded
President Hafez Assad.
"As the Israeli elections get
closer, it will be harder and hard-
er for any Israeli government to
make a deal with Syria," said one
source close to the Israeli gov-
ernment. "The President knows
this, and Assad knows this. But
it is important that they know
that this is a matter of some ur-
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Shimon Peres:
Touching base.
gency. That was the real message
the foreign minister delivered."
At the same time, Mr. Peres
assured the president that his
country will not be pushed by
that sense of urgency into cutting
a deal that would jeopardize Is-
rael's security.
Mr. Clinton, according to
Washington sources, got the for-
eign minister's point — although
his Mideast team has not come
up with any new strategies for
cutting through Mr. Assad's
dense, dilatory style of negotiat-
ing.
Also on the foreign minister's
agenda was an Israeli proposal
for a Mideast conference on se-
curity and cooperation, modeled
after the CSCE group in Europe,
a regional structure emphasiiing
economic development, security
and human rights.
Administration officials were
intrigued by that idea — but they
are not prepared to make any
detailed commitments until a
Syrian-Israeli deal is closer to
reality.
Family Reunion
Endangered
The administration and Congress
can't agree on much, but they can
agree on one thing: immigrants,
particularly the elderly and the
infirm, should pick up the tab for
the ambitious and controversial
welfare reform effort underway
in the capital.
That's the common element in
a handful of plans being kicked
around Capitol Hill, and it's a fea-
ture of the soon-to-be-introduced
administration bill.
Complicating matters further
is a new bill by Sen. D.M. Fair-
cloth, R-N.C., that goes even fur-
ther by cutting off all access to
some 58 key social service pro-
grams to immigrants who are not
yet citizens.
That sounds like a good idea to
a public fed up with non-citizens
getting government benefits,
while taxpayers face a world of
constricting government services.
But that plan, and to a lesser
extent all of the other schemes
for financing the long-overdue
welfare overhaul, could have dev-
astating consequences for elder-
ly immigrants brought to this
country under the family reuni-
fication program — including
thousands of Jews from the for-
mer Soviet Union.
"This would just about destroy
the immigration system," said Di-
ana Aviv, Washington represen-
tative of the Council of Jewish
Federations. "It will send the
clear message that the United
States is ready to break with fam-
ily reunification as the corner-
stone of our immigration policy.
That would be very bad news for
the Jewish community."
Officially, Jewish agencies are
fighting the whole concept of fi-
nancing welfare reform by slash-
ing immigrant and refugee ser-
vices. Unofficially, many are
hoping the tangle of competing
proposals will result in a post-
ponement until next year.