From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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Subject: american opinion
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:14:45 EST
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     Israel's standing in American public opinion has declined as
     the result of the Gulf War, its invasion of Lebanon, its
     handling of the intifada, and its ties with unsavory regimes
     like that in South Africa. (Hadar Quagmire 1992)

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<author>Hadar, Leon T.
<title>Quagmire: America in the Middle East
<city>Washington, D.C.
<publisher>Cato Institute
<year>1992
<isbn>ISBN 0-932790-93-3

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     Leon T. Hadar teaches in the School of International Service
     of the American University and is an adjunct scholar in
     foreign policy studies of the Cato Institute. He has been a
     New York and Washington correspondent for several foreign
     newspapers and UN bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post. He
     has also been affiliated with the Institute of East-West
     Security Studies and the Center for International
     Development and Conflict Management as a research fellow in
     foreign policy.

     Hadar's articles on Middle Eastern issues have appeared in
     journals such as Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review,
     and World Policy Journal and in U.S. and foreign newspapers
     including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los
     Angeles Times, the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, and the
     San Diego Union. He appears frequently on radio and
     television and has been interviewed by CNN, ABC News, BBC,
     ITN, Voice of America, Monitor Radio and Television, and
     German television.

     Hadar is a graduate of the Schools of Journalism and
     International Affairs and Middle East Institute of Columbia
     University. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations
     from the American University.

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     Indeed, as the concept of Israel as America's unsinkable
     aircraft carrier seemed less and less buoyant, policymakers
     started to question the need for continuing what is
     currently America's largest foreign assistance program--some
     $3 billion in military and economic aid to Israel every
     year. The proposal by Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.) to cut by 5
     percent the aid package to Israel and other major recipients
     in order to free money for Eastern Europe reflected the new
     trend. In May 1990 a major supporter of Israel, Sen. Howard
     Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), warned Shamir that congressional
     "support for Israel is in jeopardy." An official in the
     Israeli embassy in Washington reportedly cabled to Jerusalem
     that Israel had become "an object of ridicule" on Capitol
     Hill.

     Those warnings also reflected a growing disenchantment with
     Israel's policies in the occupied territories on the part of
     the American Jewish community in particular and the American
     public in general. A study prepared by the Israeli-Diaspora
     Institute at Tel Aviv University of 780 officials and
     leaders of American Jewish organizations found 74 percent in
     favor of talks between Israel and the PLO and 76 percent in
     favor of territorial compromise. A July 1990 New York
     Times/CBS poll detected a serious erosion of public support
     for aid to Israel. Forty-seven percent of the respondents
     backed a Palestinian homeland in the West Bank and Gaza.
     Those and other polls suggested that Israel's policies,
     ranging from the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the suppression
     of the <it>intifada</it>--as well as Jerusalem's ties with
     the apartheid government in Pretoria and cooperation with
     other unsavory regimes in the Third World--were gradually
     eroding support for Israel even among important pro-Israeli
     constituencies.

<excerpt pages>80-81

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