ANNUAL WINTER CLEARANCE! Select ROBES, NIGHTGOWNS AND PAJAMAS 40% OFF naled it will readily accept strict U.S. conditions. APN supports the badly needed pack- age of grant aid and loan guarantees, which totals more than $12 billion. But the group wants detailed conditions ensuring that no. money is used to sup- port settlements in Gaza and the West Bank, which the group regards as pri- mary obstacles to peace. And APN is suggesting that 20 per- cent of the loan guarantee money be set aside for construction of housing for settlers who want to relocate inside Israel. Last week, APN buttressed its demand with a study showing that a large amount of current U.S. economic aid "is spent on settlers and settle- ments." Lewis Roth, APN's assistant executive director, said the study was part of an "ongoing campaign. And it underestimates what is actually spent on settlements; there are areas of the [Israeli] budget where what's spent inside the Green Line and on settle- ments can't be separated." He said the group is distributing the report to members of Congress, who must vote on both the extra aid and the loan guarantees. But an Israeli official rejected APN's math, insisting that most money spent over the Green Line goes to security of existing settlements. "They have a right to believe the settlements should be removed," the source said. "But as long as they are there, they should be pro- tected. It is inaccurate to say this gov- ernment spending is going to settlement construction." According to Washington sources, Israel made it clear from the outset that it would accept the same conditions against using new aid or loans outside the Green Line that were attached to the 1991 loan guarantees. Several Jewish activists said the APN demand that some loan money be reserved for settler resettlement was a smart political ploy — but one that is unlikely to gain much traction in a Congress that seems unwilling to chal- lenge the current Israeli government. The biggest debate will likely come over how the loan guarantees are scored" — the amount of money that must be set aside against any possible default. Israel has indicated that, as it did in 1991, it will pick up the costs of scor- ing. But exactly how much must be set aside is determined by the Congress- ional Budget Office. The Bush administration has signaled it will consider the request during a series of meetings with visiting Israeli " delegations in the next few weeks, but also that it is in no rush. In fact, the White House is expected to hold up the aid package until it can be incorporated into a massive post-Iraq regional pack- age. Select BRAS 50% OFF Jockey for Her 100% cotton panties Hispanic Ties According to recent Census Bureau sta- tistics, the Hispanic population is soar- ing and the community has edged out African Americans as the nation's biggest minority group. That poses a new challenge for Jewish groups that need coalition partners in Washington and in statehouses across the country. Next week, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, which has focused in the past on black-Jewish rela- tions, will hold its first-ever congression- al event bringing together Jewish and Hispanic members of Congress. In fact, the Hispanic caucus in the House is just about as large as the Jewish delegation. "The black, Hispanic and Rabbi Asian caucuses will only Schneier grow," said Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the foundation. "Those of us who are very concerned about maintaining and improving support for the state of Israel have to focus our energies on these eth- nic communities." Building Jewish-Hispanic ties will be harder in some respects than furthering black-Jewish relations, he said. "With the African-American community, we have a shared history," Rabbi Schneier said. "On one hand, blacks and Jews brought about the greatest social change in the history of the nation through the civil rights movement. At the same time, we have had very difficult, divisive movements." The Jewish and Hispanic communi- ties have yet to develop that extensive network of social and political ties, he said. "For the most part, Jews and Latinos have had good relations; now we need to find those issues that can really serve as catalysts to take the rela- tionship to the next level." In part because of the new Hispanic focus, the foundation is getting set to open a Washington office sometime in June. "The focus will be on strengthen- ing relations between the black, Jewish, Hispanic and Asian caucuses in Congress," Rabbi Schneier said. 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