Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush Administration asked Israel privately to postpone for 120 days its request for the loan guarantees. When Israel refused, Bush tried to persuade the pro-Israeli lobby and its friends in Congress to go along with the delay. But while they continued to listen, they cranked up their counteroffensive. Says a senior Administration official: "We knew there would be opposition, but we had no idea they would launch a full-blown lobbying campaign against...
...issue which could deadlock the peace negotiations. No one is trying to impede their immigration to Israel. The United States and Western Europe, which pressed long and hard for the right of these Jews to emigrate, recognize an obligation to help Israel absorb them. The four month delay in loan guarantees that President Bush seeks would not jeopardize this process...
...long as the Shamir government refuses to take a stand and make substantial progress in negotiations, President Bush is justified in urging Congress to delay action on Israel's request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to resettle Soviet Jews...
...face of it, the request seemed reasonable enough -- especially since the friend doing the asking was also the friend destined to be doing the giving. But last week when President Bush, anxious to keep the Middle East peace process on track, asked Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to delay his request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to help with the settlement of Soviet Jewish emigres, Shamir responded with a belligerent no. Americans, Shamir insisted, "are obliged, from a moral point of view, to give Israel this aid." Moreover, he lectured, "humanitarian aid" should not be mixed up with political...
...bottom, Bush's appeal to delay much-needed aid to Israel's Soviet immigrants is thoughtless and counter-productive. Witholding loan guarantees to build homes for refugees and placing preconditions on peace negotiations is both a political and a humanitarian mistake. It is Bush's stubbornness--not American support for Soviet immigrants--which could disrupt next month's peace conference and leave one million refugees homeless...