Furthermore. the effort to achieve any compromise failed during a critical year for Israeli Government and society. Early this summer. the Israeli electorate will vote in parliamentary elections that many observers view as a referendum on how the Jewish state should address the interwoven issues of peace. land. and security. At the same time. our State Department imprudently sought to link the matter of housing loan guarantees for Soviet and Ethiopian emigrants to a cessation of West Bank settlement activity by the Israeli Government before these elections and before the completion of the ArabIsraeli peace process. Therefore. they are predetermined. This bizarre coordination of policy and timing put the United States in the position of dictating diplomatic concessions to a government before it had the opportunity to develop its diplomatio approach towards neighboring adversaries that do not even acknowledge the right of the government to exist.
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