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between the United States and Israel highlighted by an
“accumulation of fighting and diplomacy... brought about one
of the major strategic shifts in the region,” the removal of the
Soviets’ Egyptian pivot. Cairo’s shift “to peace with Israel and
to cooperation with the United States” benefitted the people
of the Middle East, Rabin said, and illustrated how common
strategy between Washington and Jerusalem can achieve
both countries’ goals.
The United States’ world wide interests and Israel’s more
local ones mean,that differences occasionally will arise, Rabin
said. But he believes “there is a realization that a strong Israel
is vital, vital to prevent wars, to prevent hostilities, and [is] the
. precondition—when it comes to any Arab ... leader deciding
to deviate from the course of war and hostilities.. .”
East Jerusalem, the West Bank
and Gaza has found disparate ele-
ments in Jerusalem closing ranks
as under iege despite splits on
policies.
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In a news conference [Satur-
day, Mar. 3] in Palm Springs,
Calif., Bush agreed with Baker,
saying he is "against earmarking"
and "it's a firm policy" against
settlement activity. In the context
of settlements and the "peace
process". Bush noted "there's
divisions in Israel on this ques-
tion, incidentally. Parties are di-
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Testifying before the Senate
Budget and the House Foreign
Affairs Committees and the House •
Appropriations Subcommittee on
Foreign Operations that handles
foreign aid, Baker repeatedly in-
sisted he wants "earmarking",
that is, guarantees, eliminated in
funds approved by Congress for
Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan
and the Philippines?He based his
insistence on a need for "flexibil-
ity" in using funds for other coun-
tries.
Although at his first of those
sessions - before the House For-
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eign Affairs Committee - chair-
man Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) told
him it would be "easy” to get a
"discretionary fund" of two or
even five percent of the foreign
aid total for his "flexibility" pur-
poses; Baker continued his de-
mands at the two subsequent
congressional meetings. He won .
little support at those hearings
since Fascell told him cutting out
earmarks was not solving Baker's '
"flexibility" problem.
It appeared to some that Baker
was more bent on having power
to use cuts in aid to gain power
for pressure on the earmarked
countries, perhaps, especially Is-
rael. It also appeared that the
proposal by Minority Senate lead-
er Robert Dole (R-Kans.) to cut
five percent of earmarked sums
was with the Bush administra-
tion's support or possibly even its
initiative.
The JH-V would be a logical forum for expanding
Jewish knowledge, Michael Abramowitz declares
As a participant in the American Jewish Committee's Intrafaith
Dialogue, it has become increasingly apparent that much of the strife
within the Jewish community comes more from lack of knowledge and
understanding than from malice. Although every congregation has its
own adult education program, the theological and philosophical em-
phasis from congregation to congregation gives us/different per-
spectives on viewing the world. Learning about the role of the Chevra
Kadisha, for example, and its importance in giving respect to Jews
who have died, is a subject which may be addressed in detail within
an Orthodox milieu yet never discussed seriously within a Reform
setting. Likewise, Reform theology is not widely understood within
the Orthodox community.
It is with these thoughts in mind that I urge the fewish Herald-Voice
to follow the format of so many other Jewish newspapers in this
country. Instead of devoting space solely to community events and
politics, the lewish Herald-Voice would be a logical forum for expand-
" ing Jewish knowledge. Subjects such as the how and why of Shabbat
observance, kashruth, birth, marriage, divorce and death, all from
different Jewish rabbinical perspectives, can be addressed. There is a
Rabin said Israelis recognize that they possess a “tiny
country, and [that] the United States is a world superpower....
We know the differences. We know that we can contribute
only in a limited way, only in a limited part of the world.”
Nevertheless, U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation “sets a
unique example”—an example that doesn’t call for the United
States to commit its forces in any war that Israel is engaged in
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Blaise Pascal, a 17th century mathematician and philoso-
y ‘ ry~ry 17' D c / pher, once wrote- "I
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longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. ”
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Bush, Baker harden demands on Israel,
put relationship at lowest since 1956
and his secretary of state, John
Foster Dulles, had in 1956 ordered
Israel to withdraw its forces from
the Sinai Peninsula where they
had gone with support from Brit-
ain and France, has the onslaught
from the White House and the
State Department appeared so
inimical to Israel's sovereignty.
At three meetings with Con-
gressional committees within a
week that ended on Mar. 1, Baker
has indicated with repetitive
statements that he is annoyed
with Prime Minister Yitzhak Sha-
mir's reluctance to accept his
proposal to allow East Jerusalem .
Arabs and deported Palestinians
to sit down with Israel to discuss
West Bank/Gaza elections.
Buffeted by the Bush adminis-
tration and the Labor Party that is
agreeing with the U.S.-Egyptian
formula for Israeli-Palestinian
talks in Cairo, Shamir was edging
towards acceptance of the Baker
call for quick Israeli approval of
his proposal when Baker demand-
ed Israeli assurances against ever
expanding or building new settle-
ments in the territories before he .
would possibly approve legisla-
tion in the Senate of a U.S. loan
guarantee of $400 million for
housing Soviet Jews. He sided
with Soviet and Arab views against <
migration of Jews into the areas.
That statement came after Sha-
saying, its origin escapes me, that small minds discuss people, average mir and other Israelis has in -
- minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas. Let us together formed him barely a half of one
elevate Houston Jewry by promoting mutual understanding through
Rabin, referring to conventional warfare, reiterated Israel’s
limitation on U.S. assistance: “...In case of any war between
any combination of Arab countries... against Israel, even with
limited Soviet support [emphasis added], Israel and Israel
alone should be capable militarily to cope with it and td win it.”
He added that if other countries friendly to the United States
adopted such a policy toward their own potential regional
conflicts—maintaining sufficient U.S.-backed strength to
obviate drawing America into combaf—“the world will be
" safer and the dangers ... of confrontation”, between the
. superpowers lessened.
The defense minister echoed the sources noted above
regarding more formal U.S.-Israel cooperation instituted since
the 1983 agreement and congressional designation of Israel as
a major non-NATO ally. He then provided some additional
specifics regarding information sharing: —
“I believe when it comes to the Air Force, in 1982 we had the
first encounters of [U.S.-built] F-15's and F-16’s with [Soviet-
made] MiG-25’s, MiG-23’s, MiG-2 l*s and Sukhoi-22 s” in
combat over Lebanon against the Syrian Air Force. The
combination of the American machines, additional Israeli
systems and Israeli pilots resulted in 80 Syrian planes downed
and no Israeli losses, Rabin stressed. “I don’t believe that there
was anywhere in the world such data accumulated in combat
conditions between these American fighters and the Russian
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fighters,”
Further, Israel aids the United States “by having access, not
always with the permission of our adversary, to very sophisti-
\ cated Russian weapons that are supplied to them. I believe
that we were the first ones in the 1960’s to deliver to the United
States the MiG-21 that we managed to bring ... from Iraq.
“We believe that we were the first ones to bring... ground-
to-air missiles. I will not elaborate about the variety of ...
weapons and data that Israel collected in combat and shared
with the United States,” Rabin said. However," believe that
as a result... certain modifications were made here [in the
United States] to the weapons....”
. i Further, there are the joint exercises, the use by U.S. forces
of facilities in Israel, and joint military research and develop-
ment projects (as mentioned above), the minister noted. As
for counterterrorism, Rabin said that “without elaborating ...
ways, methods, information, how to cope with it—it’s in the
interests of the United States and Israel and other members of
the democratic free world to work together. And a lot has
. been done. I remember quite vividly the Achille Lauro affair....
Without going into.details, I believe it proved ... how effective
cooperation betweencountries can work.”
or to station troops in Israel, yet offers Israeli facilities for U.S.
use. Before his country asks for American support, Rabin
said, it makes demands on itself. “Our economy suffers” and
even after several consecutive years of defense budget cuts,
military spending is still approximately 19% of the gross national
product (GNP)—13.4% of gross domestic product in 1988
(without U.S. military aid). No other Western country allots
such a large percentage to defense, Rabin said. (The United
States spends 5.5% of GNP on the military, other NATO
countries spend less.) The minister added another element
which makes U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation unique: Israel
“is thankful to the United States for its assistance [and] ready
to offer its facilities to be used by the armed forces of the
United States for the United States’ purposes, not related to
... Israeli interests.”
(To Be Continued)
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