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embarrass President Bill Clin-
ton, who favors the aid, or sim-
ply to appeal to hard line Jewish
contributors.
The same is likely to happen
if the United States is called on
to play a more active role in bro-
kering and supporting a Syrian-
Israeli deal. It may also come
into play when Palestinian and
Israeli negotiators start thrash-
ing out the explosive issue of
Jerusalem.
The point here is not that crit-
icism of Israeli government
positions is illegitimate, or that
the American Jewish communi-
ty can or should enforce tight
limits on who can speak out in
the political arena and who is
trife.
But pro-Israel activists need
to understand that bringing our
differences over basic Mideast
policy to Congress, and encour-
aging politicians to exploit those
differences as part of their own
partisan agendas, endangers the
broad bi-partisan coalition that
has supported Israel and Amer-
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election campaign.
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ican Mideast policy for several
decades.
The American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee (AIPAC), the
lead pro- Israel lobby, has insist-
ed that only they should be lob-
bying on these issues — a hope
that may be more wishful think-
ing than reality.
But they make a valid point
that pro-Israel power has de-
pended to a great extent on a will-
ingness of most Jewish groups to
conform to consensus positions,
at least in the rarified air of Capi-
tol Hill, no matter how much they
might disagree in internal dis-
cussions.
Sunday's rally in New York
will do little to heal deep com-
munal rifts.
But to the extent that the ral-
ly sent out a political message of
continuing Jewish support for the
foundations of the pro-Israel
movement — including the com-
mandment that Israel should be
allowed to pursue its own course
to peace — it may have served
a useful function down in Wash-
ington. El
ow that the Palestinian
elections are over, Israel is
gearing up — "bracing it-
self' may be a more ap-
propriate description — for its
own election campaign.
In fact, the contest has already
begun, to some degree, with the
primary campaigns in the Labor
and Likud parties, which may be
held simultaneously at the end
of March so that soldiers can vote
in them. There has also been a
proposal from Likud chairman
Benyamin Netanyahu that could
turn Israeli politics inside out.
Even at this early date, the
candidates' thirst for exposure is
propelling them into the head-
lines. For example, Likud Knes-
set member Yossi Achimeir (and
spokesman of former-Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Shamir) has pro-
posed a law making the death
sentence mandatory for anyone
"giving away parts of the Land
of Israel." This has elicited a se-
ries of guffaws on the left and
sheepish smiles on the right. But
the strongest criticism of the idea
is that he launched it too early,
that he should have saved it for
the end of the campaign when ef-
forts to capture the public's at-
tention will undoubtedly spawn
equally extravagant proposals.
Free publicity is indeed a key
objective for candidates. For lim-
ited as they are by law to a max-
imum expenditure of $127,000
— Labor's internal rules have
pared that down to $80,000 for
candidates running on the par-
ty's national ballot and a mere
$48,000 for those on regional or
sectoral lists — candidates have
quickly discovered that these al-
lotments do not last long. For ex-
ample, a single mailing to the
Likud's 200,000 registered mem-
bers eats up mor than half of a
candidate's operating budget.
Little wonder that even as
they compete with each other,
like-minded candidates have
teamed up to economize. Labor's
Yossi Beilin and Yael Dayan
have sent out their campaign lit-
erature in the same envelope.
Similar arrangements have been