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Focus on executive branch
goal of ‘new AIPAC’: Dine
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI’s Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—Military and
economic relations between the
U nited States and Israel are under
going a “revolution” that is chang
ing the ties between the two coun
tries and the attitudes of federal
bureaucrats responsible for that
relationship, the chief operations
officer of the American-Israel Pub
lic Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
said this week.
Speaking of a “new AIPAC,”
the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee’s Executive Director
Tom Dine told the 27th annual
policy conference here that “We
are in the midst of a revolution that
is raising U.S.-Israel relations to
new heights.” Crediting President
Reagan and especially Secretary of
State George Shultz, Dine told the
1,200 delegates at the opening of
the three-day conference, that the
revolution is taking place in stra
tegic cooperation in the economic
arena and in public diplomacy
while the Congress continues to be
“the bedrock of Israel-U.S. rela
tions.”
Dine cautioned that while the
relationship is “excellent,” AIPAC
“inevitably” faces “a tension” in
the partnership since “in some cases
we oppose administration policy,
particularly if it threatens Israel,
even if this opposition strains our
relations with the president.”
Observing “the revolution is
only just begun,” Dine said “the
gains are not yet secure.” Referring
to the administration’s proposed
sale of $354 million in missiles to
Saudi Arabia that is now before
Congress, Dine explained that
while AIPAC had opposed pre
vious administration moves for lar
ger sales to Saudi Arabia, in the
present Saudi case, “we have made
an opposite decision,” and “deci
ded not to fight” the sale.
“The cost of a confrontation
with the administration would have
been greater than the marginal
benefits of stoppingthe arms sale,”
Dinesaid. Although, he continued,
“our very strong instinct was to
Tom Dine
fight it, especially because of Saudi
Arabia’s abominable record,” Dine
said he found “there was a consen
sus among defense experts asso
ciated with all factions and all
schools of thought that this partic
ular package had questionable im
pact on the security of Israel.
“We also found a remarkable
consensus amongthe major Jewish
organizations in our community,
such as the Conference of Presi
dents, Council of Jewish Federa
tions, the defense agencies, the
National Jewish Community Rela
tions Advisory Council, the Com
munity Relations Council,” Dine
said. “They felt that we would not
be justified in mounting a major
campaign to confront the adminis
tration’s policy in this particular
case.
“We know the Congress con
tains our most reliable and essen
tial friends,” Dine said, “but it is
essential to work closely with the
executive branch officials as well.”
Noting the decisions that the
president and his advisors make on
such matters, as whether Israel is
excluded or asked to be included in
scientific arrangements, such as
Strategic Defense Initiative re
search, and how the U.S. will “re
late to moderate and radical Arab
countries and to Israel itself,” Dine
said, “we must do in the Executive
Branch what we have done in the
Congress—make new friends and
spread the message of how close
relations with our one reliable dem
ocratic ally in the Middle East
serve the interests of the United
States.”
Dine applauded the more than
500 students from high schools and
colleges who set a record attend
ance at the conference. “If you
want a glimpse into the 21st cen
tury, look around you,” Dine told
the AIPAC activist adults repre
senting all 50 states. “As we march
into the 1990s and beyond these
young people will be marching
with us to expand and deepen” the
partnership between Washington
and Jerusalem.
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