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Terrorism Debate
Lobbying Congress on the Bush initiative;
State Dept.'s annual list; Jews and politics.
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
Jr
ewish groups are redoubling
their efforts to maintain
strong congressional support
for Israel, especially in the
wake of last week's sharp exchanges
between Washington and Jerusalem.
Many pro-Israel groups, including
the Anti-Defamation League and the
American Jewish Congress, expressed
disapproval of Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's statement warning of
Munich-like appeasement as the
Bush administration woos Arab and
Muslim nations for its anti-terror
coalition.
At the same time, these and other
groups are waging a low-profile,
high-intensity campaign to make
sure Israei's concerns are heard in
Congress as a counterweight to the
administration's focus on winning
Arab and Muslim support.
Jewish activists are delivering a
two-part message: The first part cen-
ters on overwhelming Jewish support
for the U.S.-led anti-terror war and
for the Bush administration's leader-
ship. To underscore that support,
most Jewish groups blunted their
criticism of a series of administration
decisions that seemed to narrow the
focus of the anti-terror effort to the
bin Laden network, and ignore anti-
Israel terror groups.
At the same time, pro-Israel
activists are quietly urging Congress
to serve as a counterforce to keep
that focus from narrowing too
much.
"One of the themes is the idea
that Congress, and particularly the
Senate leadership, has always played
an important role in ensuring that
Israel's interests are taken into
account in the formulation of broad-
er Mideast policy," said Jess Hordes,
Washington director for the Anti-
Defamation League.""And that's a
role they should continue to play."
Jewish leaders are anxious to avoid
the impression that they are using
Congress to put the brakes on ele-
ments of the administration's war
strategy, other Jewish leaders say.
But they want the brakes to be in
good shape if the administration
moves too fast in the direction of
wooing Arab and Muslim support.
That was the core message of a
group of Jewish organization repre-
sentatives who met with Senate
Democratic leaders last week.
"The message they heard loud and
clear — and reiterated back to us —
is that distinguishing between good
and bad terrorists is completely
unacceptable," said Hannah
Rosenthal, executive vice-chair of
the Jewish Council for Public Affairs
(JCPA), which arranged the meet-
ing. "In a war against terrorism, we
are trying to stop people from com-
mitting acts of terror against civil-
ians; it doesn't matter if that person
happens to be in a pizza place in
Jerusalem or in the World Trade
Center."
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chair of
the Senate Armed Services
Committee, expressed strong con-
cerns about an administration coali-
tion-building effort that he said
might threaten Israel's security.
The Senate delegation also includ-
ed Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-
S.D., Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.,
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Sen.
Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and
both New York senators — Chuck
Schumer and Hillary Rodham
Clinton, both Democrats.
A scheduled meeting with
Republican leaders was canceled.
Terror List
Everything has changed in the U.S.
stance on international terrorism as
people around the country feel the
fear that terrorism spawns — and as
the military launches its attacks on
the infrastructure that supports ter-
rorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Well, not everything. Late last
week the biennial State Department
list of terrorist organizations was
released with no major changes.
As usual, the lineup includes bin
Laden's Al-Qaida network, allegedly
responsible for the Sept. 1 1 World
Trade Center and Pentagon terror
attacks.