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ro-Israel activists in
Washington were squirming
this week as the administra-
tion turned up the heat in
the battle over Israel's lucrative arms
trade with China — a sore point for
years, but festering more than ever
now that Israel is getting set to deliver
components of the Phalcon Airborne
Early Warning, Command and
Control System, a deal reportedly
worth more than $250 million.
The issue is also entangled in the --
increasingly bitter partisan debate over
the administration's own eagerness to
trade with China at a time when ten-
sions between Taiwan and the main-
land are growing.
In unusually blunt language,
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen
blasted the Israeli sale at a Jerusalem
news conference on Monday.
"I have indicated before that the
United States does not support the
sale of this type of technology to
China, because of the potential of
changing the strategic balance in that
region, with the tensions running high
as they are betWeen China and
Taiwan," he said.
Cohen's demands were turned aside
by Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who
said he was "aware of the sensitivity in
the United States with regard to
China," but insisted that Israel has to
fulfill "our commitment in the con-
tracts we have signed."
Israeli officials say the sale does not
include any sensitive U.S. technology,
and does not violate U.S. law; U.S.
officials say that the advanced radars
could be used against Taiwan, or even
against U.S. forces defending the
besieged island.
Israeli officials also quietly point to
Washington's own China trade —
including the sale of supercomputers
needed to produce and test nuclear
weapons. Those same computers were
held back from Israel on nuclear-pro-
liferation grounds.
The steadily increasing pressure
couldn't have come at a worse time for
pro-Israel lobbyists, who are working
to ensure Israel's regular aid package
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for the upcoming fiscal year in the
midst of strong election-year pressure
for more budget cuts.
And pro-Israel groups, backed by a
procession of Israeli officials, continue
to prepare the political ground for a
huge supplemental security package
— upwards of $17 billion, by most
estimates — that they hope to get
from Congress in the event of a peace
agreement with Syria.
"There's almost no way we could
do a new aid package without some
kind of commitment from Israel that
they'll scale back the China enter-
prise," said an administration official.
"We're already hearing enough talk
from Congress that we know it is an
issue we have to address. It creates
both a military problem and a huge
political problem."
State Department spokesman James
Rubin refused to directly link foreign
aid to Israel's China sales, but he came
closer than ever before.
"I am not aware of any plan to
respond by cutting aid as a result of
this," Rubin said on Monday. "On the
other hand, it's fair to say that if Israel
were not to respond to our concerns
that it would have some effect. Precisely
what, I'm not prepared to speculate."
Pro-Israel sources say the China
controversy could inflame congres-
sional Republicans, whose support for
foreign aid is always tentative.
Missiles For Egypt
Even as Washington was putting Israel
through a public wringer over its
high-tech arms sales to China, the
United States was announcing a sale
of its own that is unlikely to go over
well with military planners in
Jerusalem.
During his Mideast swing this
week, Defense Secretary William
Cohen announced that Egypt will get
a new air defense missile, to - upgrade
aging Soviet-era equipment.
On the trading block: a new,.
ground-launched version of the
AMRAAM missile. Cohen made the
announcement during a stop in Cairo
on Monday.
At the very least, some Jewish
activists say, the sale represents a sig-
nificant military reward for a country