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Over the years, Buchanan's
hostility towards Israel has been
open, relentless and mean-spir-
ited. He has claimed that Israel
is an albatross around America's
neck and made the outrageous
claim that Jews and Israelis
were the only ones urging Amer-
ica to take action against
Sadaam Hussein. He has re-
peatedly called for an end to for-
eign aid, singling out Israel as an
unworthy recipient.
He has shown utter contempt
for what he claims is undue
Jewish political influence, as dis-
played by his urging President
Reagan not to abandon his ill
conceived plans to visit SS
graves at Bitburg; he argued
that Reagan must not cave to
"Jewish pressure." He has re-
peatedly denigrated and
ridiculed Holocaust related is-
sues, and has unabashedly de-
fended of a wide array of Nazi
criminals. As the former head of
the Office of Special Investiga-
tions in the Justice Department,
I can attest to Buchanan's
shameless intervention of behalf
of those who took part in the Fi-
nal Solution. Even while serv-
ing as Communications Director
of the Reagan White House, he
leapt to the defense of a con-
centration camp chief and a
Nazi rocket scientist who ad-
mitted working slave laborers
to death, both of whom were be-
ing pursued by my office.
I must concede that during
the 1996 campaign Buchanan
has, for the most part, avoided
some of the crude anti-Semitic
rhetoric which he freely doled
out as a journalist and TV corn-
mentator. And, he has not blast-
ed Israel as he has done in the
past. That is not to say that the
leopard has changed his spots.
Buchanan has always prided
himself in "saying what he
means and meaning what he
says."
But part of his current politi-
cal agenda, the isolationist and
xenophobic America First doc-
trine, does pose a grave threat
to Israel, not to mention Ameri-
ca's strength abroad. (By the
way, Buchanan's choice of the
slogan America First is telling.
The original America First
movement in the 1930s, whose
leaders praised Hitler and op-
posed U.S. intervention in Eu-
rope, was overtly anti-Semitic).
Buchanan's disdain for U.S.
global leadership and his advo-
cacy of head in the sand isola-
tionism would spell nothing but
disaster for Israel. The strong
U.S.-Israel relationship and
strategic reliance would be put
at risk. Not only would Israel be
weakened, but the U.S. position
in that volatile region would be
jeopardized.
Make no mistake. Buchanan
and Buchananism pose serious
threats to us, not only because
of his repulsive rhetoric, but also
because of his wrong headed no-
tions of foreign policy.
Right now Buchanan is in an
acrimonious battle with Jewish
positions. They should make it
clear that whatever successes
the Republicans have accom-
plished in our community will be
in jeopardy if they do not do so.
Too much is at stake to straddle
the fence.
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On The West Bank
Will Israeli expansion on the West Bank be
driven by Ariel Sharon's bulldozer or tied
up in political red tape?
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S
hai Peled, a handsome 24-
year-old Tel Aviv Univer-
sity student, has taken on
a tedious, thankless, and
potentially dangerous job. Twice
a week, he sets out for the Israeli
settlements in the West Bank or
Gaza Strip to count building
starts, uninhabited new houses
and flats as a coordinator of Peace
Now's Settlement Watch Team.
"We're trying to capture a
base-line picture of the situation
on theground before the next
round of construction begins," Mr.
Peled explains as we clamber out
of the transporter hired to bring
him, Meretz Party Knesset Mem-
ber Dedi Zucker, and other vol-
unteers to the West Bank town
of Ariel. "Many of the settlers
refuse to talk to us," Mr. Peled
says. "Others deliberately lie
when they find out who we are.
And although we often get infor-
mation from real-estate agents
and laborers on construction
sites, there's nothing like coming
out and counting for yourself."
"I never thought I'd be out do-
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