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Mr. Barak Comes
To Washington

JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent

hud Barak; the general-
turned-politician who hopes
to lead Israel's Labor party
out of the wilderness, tried
out some of the themes that will drive
his campaign for the post of prime
minister during his first high-profile
visit to Washington this week.
The battered peace process and
Barak's view that the government of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
is damaging Israel's security by allow-
ing it to languish were at the top of
his agenda, but the Labor leader and
his delegation also struck the theme of
Jewish fragmentation and the "cultural
wars" that they say threaten to under-
mine Israel from within.
But Barak's belated effort to estab-
lish a strong Washington presence was
overshadowed by the controversy sur-
rounding Knesset Member Ori Orr,
who was supposed to accompany him.
Barak dismissed Orr, a close friend
and associate, from his party posts this
week after Orr made disparaging com-
ments about Sephardi Jews.
And the former general managed to
arrive just as Congress was fleeing for
its August recess, and as the nation's
attention was riveted on the latest
developments in the Monica Lewinsky
saga.
"No::mally, there would be signifi-
cant interest in what he has to say,"
said a Jewish House staffer. "But this
week, recess and Monica are the only
issues anybOdy's paying attention to.
His timing left a lot to be desired."
In part, the trip was a carefully
orchestrated response to criticism at
home.
"There's not a lot of subtlety to
this," said Mark Rosenblum, political
director of Americans for Peace Now
"Barak has been under intensive criti-
cism for going from 'Mr. Security' to
`Mr. Invisible.' Centrist doves in this
country had enormous hopes that
Barak, with his security credentials,
would be the remaking of [former
Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin. People
have been disappointed that he had
become invisible."
This week's visit, which included
meetings with congressional leaders,
nationa l security adviser Sandy Berger
and members of the State Department
peace process team, and a number of

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