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The Politics Of Unity
Are Investigated
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
ast week's pro-Israel "unity
rally" at Madison Square
Garden came about after
frantic efforts by Jewish
leaders to overcome — at least
for a day — growing disunity over
a host of religious, cultural and
political issues.
But these communal acrobat-
ics did not mean that the exercise
was a foolish one.
While the quest for consensus
sometimes seems wasteful and
counterproductive, the perpetu-
ation of unified positions on a
handful of key issues affecting Is-
rael's security and the critical
U.S.-Israel relationship remains
an important ingredient in pro-
Israel power.
And where that consensus re-
ally counts is in Washington,
where at least a degree of cohe-
sion may be the single most im-
portant factor in keeping
American Mideast policy from be-
ing skewed by a political machine
that can turn just about any is-
sue into meaningless partisan
mush.
Jewish leaders of every stripe
want unity, but they all believe
that their own positions should
provide the underlying basis for
agreement.
Some Orthodox leaders de-
scribe unity in ways that suggest
that only when all Jews observe
the Commandments can the
Jewish community be as one; lib-
eral Jewish leaders too often
seem to imply that unity re
quires that the Orthodox give up
their commitment to age-old re-
ligious values.
Jewish leaders spend vast
amounts of time and energy seek-
ing agreement on communal is-
sues where agreement is highly
unlikely. In the process, they of-
ten reduce the substance of
agreement to a kind of lowest
common denominator that pro-
duces a rough illusion of consen-
sus without the impact of real
agreement. That exercise often
inflames the divisions that al-
ready exist in our community as
groups are pressured to abandon
or dilute deeply felt positions in
the interests of consensus.
But when it comes to politics,
a different kind of unity — a
pragmatic rock-solid consensus
on the basics of the pro-Israel
faith — is still a vital element in
Jewish and pro-Israel clout.
For all our disagreements over
a host of religious and cultural
issues and for all our differing
views of the options facing Israel
in its dangerous neighborhood,
we have traditionally been able
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to come together to support the
strong U.S.-Israel relationship,
and to support Israel's quest for
peace and security.
That approached has offered
the pro-Israel movement a mea-
sure of insulation from the par-
tisan fray.
Jews have traditionally sought
to build bridges to politicians
from every part of the political
spectrum, which means playing
politics with the big boys. Lob-
bying is the most political of ac-
tivities, and pro-Israel lobbyists
play the game with skill and vig-
or.
At the same time, pro-Israel
forces have operated under a tac-
it agreement to avoid turning the
core issues, like aid to Israel or
the strategic ties between Wash-
ington and Jerusalem, into fod-
der for the political wars.
'There's been a kind of self-im-
posed restraint about never turn-
ing the big issues in the
U.S.-Israeli relationship into par-
tisan issues," said a veteran pro-
Israel activist on Capitol Hill.
"You use the political system, but
you try not to be used by the po-
litical system."
Everyone
wants unity
on their terms.
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But that often-blurry line has
been crossed with increasing fre-
quency in recent months.
Some Jewish groups, pro-Is-
rael activists say, have encour-
aged a growing entanglement of
politics and U.S. Mideast policy
because of their desire to under-
cut the policies of the Rabin and
Peres governments.
The nightmare scenario for
pro-Israel leaders involves
swarms of Jewish lobbyists on
Capitol Hill, each seeking out
politicians who may not care a
whit for Israel — but who are al-
ways eager for some new politi-
cal cudgel to swing against their
enemies across the partisan di-
vide.
This is what has happened in
the recent debate over aid to the
PLO. Conservative legislators
have been approached by Jewish
groups that oppose the "consen-
sus" position favoring aid. In
some cases, those legislators
have been motivated heavily by
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