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probably do so if Netanyahu appears.
The prime minister's office said that
an invitation has been received, but
that no decision has been made.
Some Jewish leaders were not
impressed by the promise to ban pros-
elytization.
"It's poppycock," said Abraham
Foxman, executive director of the
Anti-Defamation League. "If they
want to do their own thing for Israel,
it's a free country. But to try to engage
the Jewish community in this is offen-
sive. We've lost enough; we don't need
to facilitate the losing of more by giv-
ing legitimacy to those who directly or
indirectly target Jews for conversion.
This undertaking would give them
legitimacy and credibility and a stand-
ing in the Jewish community."
What about participation by Jewish
and Israeli officials?
"It's inappropriate," Mr. Foxman
said. "There are enough friends of
Israel in the Christian community
who are true friends, without ulterior
motives, with whom we can celebrate
Israel's anniversary."
David Duke Scare Abates
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The latest David Duke scare may be
over, although nobody expects that a
permanent cure has been found for
the politically ambitious former Ku
Klux Klanner.
Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., chair
of the House Appropriations Commit-
tee, reversed an earlier decision not to
seek an 11th term.
When Livingston first revealed his
intention to retire, Duke, whose
perennial efforts to win a ticket to
Capitol Hill invariably set off alarm
bells throughout the Jewish communi-
ty, indicated interest in running. The
district centers on suburban New
Orleans, where Mr. Duke enjoys his
strongest support.
Duke lost a Senate bid in 1990
against Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, a
Democrat, by a slim margin. And in
1996, he finished second in the
Republican primary; the winner of
that contest, Woody Jenkins, lost to
Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, in a
contest that remains controversial
almost two years later.
Livingston said his decision to
stay in Congress had nothing to do
with the specter of another Duke
campaign, but Capitol Hill observers
say it was a significant factor in his
thinking.
"There was pressure from Republi-
can leaders in a very positive way,"
said Charles Brooks, executive director
of the National PAC, the largest pro-
Israel political action committee. "The
last thing anybody wanted was Duke
on any ticket."
From a pro-Israel point of view,
Livingston is no bargain; the powerful
appropriator has always had problems
with foreign aid, and it was he who
threatened to hold up some of Israel's
aid last year because of the controversy
over Israel's delay in extraditing a
Maryland teen-ager wanted in a grisly
murder.
Is Lerman Next Out?
Now that Walter Reich is out as exec-
utive director of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington,
museum watchers wonder if Miles
Lerman, the head of the U.S. Holo-
caust Memorial Council, will be next.
Lerman's term as chair is up this
spring, and there have been persistent
stories that his involvement in the
controversy over the aborted trip to
the museum by Arafat might jeopar-
dize his reappointment.
Initially, Lerman approved a request
by the administration's Mideast team
to welcome the Palestinian leader,
then changed his mind after talking to
Reich — and then changed course
again when the controversy hit the
newspapers.
Lerman
stirs
controversy.
Some of Reich's supporters say the
outgoing director, who took the job in
1995,-was scapegoated for Lerman's
handling of the Arafat mess. Other
museum watchers say that the Arafat
incident was just one factor in Reich's
ouster, which was formalized by an
exchange of letters in which the direc-
tor indicated that he would not seek
renewal of his employment contract in
June.
For his part, Lerman admitted that
he made a mistake in not consulting
with the Holocaust Council's execu-
tive committee while making — and
changing — decisions about the
Arafat visit.
But administration insiders say that
Lerman's job is probably secure —
although they expect that his reap-
pointment will probably be delayed