Strong Support for Israel Given by Humphrey
Throughout Entire Political Experience

CHICAGO (JTA) — Vice Presi-
dent Hubert H. Humphrey, the
Democratic nominee for President,
has vigorously supported Israel's
cause throughout his career as a
member of the Senate and as Vice
President. Last month, he reiter-
ated his advocacy of continued
Unite _ d States military aid to Is-
rael and said this should include
the sale to Israel of "supersonic
planes such as Phantom jets"
which Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
asked of President Johnson when
the Israeli leader visited the Presi-
dent last January.
Humphrey clarified his views
on the Phantom jet. matter Aug.
4 in • response to a telegram from
the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee in Washington. The
telegram asked clarification of the
Vice President's July 11 state-

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

ment in which he said he favored
continued military assistance to
Israel, including jet planes, but
not specifying what kind of jet
planes. The United States has pro-
vided Israel with subsonic Sky-
hawk jet fighters.
The Vice President declared,
In his reply, that the cause of
Middle East peace was not be-
ing served by Soviet supplies of
weapons to the Arab states and
that "Until permanent peace is
achieved and the arms race
ended, continued United States
Military assistance to Israel is
justified. This assistance should
include supersonic planes such
as Phantom jets, but the real
answer lies in agreed disarm-
ament. It is in the interests of
all the people of the Middle
East to engage actively in nego-
tiated agreements among the
nations of the region." In his
July 11 statement the Vice
President also said that the
grounds for a permanent Middle
East peace were the acceptance
of Israel by its Arab neighbors,
the transformation of truce lines
into "agreed and secure bound-
aries," Israeli navigational rights
in the Suez Canal and the Gulf
Of Aqaba, an end to the arms
race, aand international assist.
ance to help solve the Arab re-
fugee problem.
As a member of the Senate,
starting in 1949, Humphrey spon-
sored legislation to aid Israel and
to challenge boycotts and dis-
criminatory practices against Is-
rael. He was a co-sponsor of legis-
lation appropriating a grant to
Israel in 1951. In 1959, he opposed
an Eisenhower Administration pro-
posal to suspend aid to Israel. In
1954 and 1956, he criticized United
States arms to Iraq and Saudi
Arabia and urged the administra-
tion to provide balancing arms for
Israel. In 1957, Sen. Humphrey
criticized the administration for
threatening sanctions against Is-
rael. He co-sponsored a resolution
calling for United Nations action
to prevent resumption of border
raids and the closing of the Suez
Canal. In 1960, he was co-sponsor
of • the Douglas-Keating amend-
ment to oppose United States aid
to countries involved • in boycotts
and blockades.

The platform on which Hum-

phrey will run includes a Middle
East plank reflecting the nom-
inee's views. It includes a call
for United States provision of
weapons to Israel, including

Muskie Exhibits
Pro-Israel Stance
in Senate Voting

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A study
of the voting record of Sen. Ed-
mund S. Muskie, of Maine, vice-
presidential nominee of the Demo-
cratic Party, shows he has voted
on a number of occasions for legis-
lation favored by supporters of
Israel and has from time to time
identified himself with Israel's
cause.
The Senator adopted a non-com-,
mital stance, however, when the
Senate subcommittee on interna-
tional finance, of which he is
chairman, held
hearings on May
24 and 25, 1965,
on an amend-
ment aimed at
the Arab boycott.
The Johnson ad-
ministration op-
posed the anti-
boycott measure.
Sen. Muskie was
believed to have
perso n a 11 y fa- Muskie
vored the amendment but he did
not publicly differ with the State
Department. The amendment was
approved by the subcommittee and
the full Banking and Currency
Committee despite the pressures
of the executive department.
Last August, Sen. Muskie took
the Senate floor to commend Ro-
mania for her independent stand
toward Israel during the Six-Day
War, when it refused to sever
diplomatic relations with Israel,
unlike the other Eastern bloc
states.
He joined with -Sen. Howard
Baker, Tennessee Republican, in
co-sponsoring in 1967 a resolu-
tion favoring the Eisenhower-
Strauss nuclear desalination plan
for the Middle East. An advocate
of foreign aid, Sen. Muskie nev-
ertheless opposed aid to nations,
like Egypt, which divert their
resources for aggressive military
expenditures.
Sen. Muskie voted in 1959 for
an amendment to the Mutual Se-
curity Act, sponsored by Sen.
Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat,
designed to stop economic aid to
countries which discriminate
against American citizens abroad
on the basis of race and religion.
The bill was aimed at the Saudi
Arabia government because of its
refusal to allow American Jewish
servicemen on an American base
in Arabia.
In 1960, he supported the Doug-
las-Keating amendment providing
for denial of aid to countries re-
stricting commerce by illegal
blockades. It was aimed at the
Egyptian blockade of the Suez
Canal against Israel and was
called the "freedom of the seas"
amendment. The Senator in 1963
voted for the Gruening-Javits
amendment designed to bar aid
to nations like Egypt that prepare
aggression against neighbor-
ing states also receiving U.S. aid.

British Aide to Bargain
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Obscure, Centuries-Old Commentary
on Bible Found by Talmudic Scholar

"the most advanced types of
combat aircraft," for maximum
NEW YORK — A commentary during the relatively obscure but
U.S. effort to prevent recur- on the Book of Deuteronomy writ- significant period of Jewish his-
rence of war in the Middle East ten in the 12th Century has been tory in which Rabbi Meyuchas
"powder keg;" a criticism of rescued from obscurity and inter- lived—the Dark Ages of Byzantine
Soviet deployment of a large preted by a talmudic scholar at the supremacy in Eastern Europe. In-
war fleet in the Mediterranean Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological dications are, Dr. Katz said, that
and heavy shipments of arms to Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva Rabbi Meyuchas lived in either
northern Italy or Greece in the
Arab states; and the assertion University.
that lasting Mideast peace de-
The ancient manuscript differs latter part of the 12th Century.
pends on agreed frontiers, as-
Dr. Katz suggested that the com-
significantly from other commen-
sured use by all of international taries by linking the oral law tradi- mentary may have particular
waterways, "humane settlement" tion to the written texts to demon- meaning to Jews who have besieg-
of the Arab refugees, as well as strate the unity of ideas and laws ed modern rabbis for guidance on
creation of a "non-provocative expressed in the Bible, Talmud, the status of children born of in-
military balance." The plank Midrash and auxiliary sources.
termarriage.
also called for efforts to end
The Talmud offers varying opin-
Written by Rabbi Meyuchas ben
the Middle East arms race.
Elijah, a 12th _ Century scholar ions on whether a child born of
In addresses to State of Israel whose name and reputation were a Jewish mother and non-Jewish
Bond rallies last March and May, acknowledged in several other father is to be regarded as Jewish.
Humphrey amplified his Middle commentaries but whose specific
Rabbi Meyuchas, Dr. Katz said,
East views. He declared that the contributions had not been known refused to accept any taint or
greatest contribution "we can make until now, the commentary was disability upon the child because
to peace in the Middle East would edited and interpreted by Dr. the verse in Deuteronomy which
be to reach agreement with the Michael Katz, associate professor calls him "your son" suggests a
Soviet Union to curtail the arms of Talmud at the seminary.
status "pure and unlimited."
race there." But, he added, in
Dr. Katz rescued the manuscript
the meantime, it should be made from the British Museum, where it
Half of all blindness, due to
clear that "America is not going had been gathering dust in the disease, accident, neglect or ignor-
to permit Israel to stand defense- Hebrew and Samarian section.
ance, is preventable.
less against any who would de-
In comparing the original text
stroy her." The Vice President with other commentaries, he shows
also commented on proposals that that Rabbi Meyuchas anchored
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the June 4, 1967, armistice lines, ten text itself in order to reduce
asserting that "a stable peace can- its vulnerability to attacks leveled
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than any other American Presi-
dential candidate in the last 20
years. But Israeli newsmen gener-
ally indicated a belief that Israel
would follow the 1968 American
election campaign with some de-
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and Abraham Ribicoff, the Con-
necticut Democrat. Sen. Gruening
was defeated in his bid for re-
nomination in the primary by Mike
Gravel, 39, a real estate developer.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Police
actions against newsmen and
peace demonstrators in Chicago
during the Democratic national
convention were denounced in
separate statements by the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, Anti-Defa-
mation League of Bnai Brith and
the (Reform) Union of American
Hebrew Congregations. The ADL
and the UAHC called for a federal
investigation of the police actions.
Arthur J. Goldberg, the AJ-
Committee's new president, said
his organiaztion "unconditionally
condemns this brutality, and any
brutality in dealing with peaceful
demonstrators," as well as "ar--
bitrary attempts by public officials
to gag news coverage and curb
expressions of opinion." The state-
ment called on Presidential nom-
inees Hubert H. Humphrey and
Richard M. Nixon, "as well as on
all other candidates for office, to
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LONDON—Prospects for the re-
lease of four British merchant
ships trapped in the Suez Canal
since it was shut down by Egypt
during the Six-Day War, will be
discussed at a meeting here this
month between Foreign Secretary
Michael ..;Lewart and Egyptian
Foreign Minister Mahmoud Raid
the Telegraph reported Wednesday.
In all, 15 freighters of various
nationalities have been stranded in
the waterway.
or police."

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