Recent administration statements have only threatened that feeling of security needed to enter negotiations. I reject the administration threat to withhold housing aid for Soviet Jews. It is a needless threat and undercuts the historic American support for emigration rights for Soviet Jews. The administration approach to housing aid is not only unnecessary. it is also a poor political move since it plays into the hands of antinegotiation Israelis who fear being bullied and blackmailed by the United States once they enter negotiations. The recent administration comments: on the status of Jerusalem. making new aid conditional on a needless official freeze on new settlements. and supporting cuts in current aid levels can all be seen as trying to bully the Israeli Government to change a policy.
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