on that country's compliance
with its Camp David obligations
and its contributions to the on-
going peace process.
"Egypt has failed to meet ful-
ly its Camp David commitment
to establish with Israel 'rela-
tionships normal to states at
peace with one another,"' Mr.
Lantos said.
Egypt's stock is certain to sink
still further because of its con-
tinuing efforts to sabotage the
Mideast Development Bank, a
pet project of the Clinton ad-
ministration intended to jump-
start economic development in
the region.
Delight In FDR Tribute
/-'
It was impossible to count the
Jews at the recent dedication of
the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
memorial on Washington's Mall,
but it would be easy to charac-
terize their mood: admiring, re-
spectful, happy that a man who
has become an icon of Jewish po-
litical life will be recognized mon-
umentally, along with Lincoln,
Jefferson and Washington.
Many working-class and im-
migrant communities had a spe-
cial affection for the patrician
FDR. More remarkable still is
the fact that the Jewish-FDR
connection has survived years
worth of revelations about Roo-
sevelt's less-than-noble record in
protecting Europe's Jews from
the Holocaust.
"That's something I've wres-
tled with," said Rabbi Yechiel
Eckstein, a Chicago rabbi and
crusader for Jewish-Evangelical
cooperation who gave the closing
invocation at the ceremony. "But
I've reconciled myself to the idea
that we have to look at the past
in the context in which it took
place. And in Roosevelt's case,
we have to make the distinction
between not doing enough —
which we were all guilty of —
and saying that Jews were ac-
tually abandoned to their fate."
Jews continue to revere FDR
"because we understand that if
it had not been for FDR's unidi-
mensional focus on bringing the
war to an end, then we ourselves
would have been part of that
Holocaust," Rabbi Eckstein said.
Rep. Sidney Yates, D-Ill., who
has represented a Chicago district
since 1948, said that Roosevelt's
determination to use the federal
government to help the needy
transformed Jewish politics.
Roosevelt opened up vast new
opportunities for Jews in gov-
ernment despite the pervasive
anti-Semitism of the era, he said.
"In the Jewish community,
the memory of what he did to
make the government more hu-
mane is very strong," Mr. Yates
said. In fact, it is strong enough
to outweigh the growing histor-
ical record of his government's
inaction in the face of the Holo-
caust. ❑
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