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By MURRAY ZECROFF • Israel and Israeli leaders Jewish forces in the
Kishon, the Israeli humor-
have emphasized that there towards Israel.
JTA News Editor
is no official position on the, Many note that regardless ist, who lampooned Ameri-
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JERUSALEM—Israel is in American presidential elec- - of who is electe srael's can liberals as irrational
the throes of an election lion, and that Israel's poi- future will not be deter- and emotionally overwrought
campaign — America's. The icy is never to interfere in • mined on her own merits but critics of Nixon. Americans
unfolding campaign in the the internal affairs of an- by international develop- found this view revolting.
and is ands corn-
Israelis
United States is being fol- : other country, it is, never- ments.
towed with intense interest less, understood that pri- One new Oleh told this ments refreshing and lucid.
here, and a fierce factional-; vately many of Israel's in- writer that Israel is "wor-
. fluential political leaders and shiping at the idol of se- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
' - m is shaping up between '
what can be roughly de_ spokesmen here and in curity and forgetting that
Friday, Sept. 1, 1972-3
Washington
favor Nixon's re- security will not come with
scribed as pro-Nixon and.
more U.S. aid but with so-
roMcGovern admirers. ; election.
The division between these Israel's news media, by 631 changes in the Middle
Daily—Hospital—Sympathy
two groups is not as simple, and large, overtly or co- East, a feeling that will be
however, as merely favoring verily, tend toward the view engendered among the peo-1
the election of one or the that Nixon's re-election is pie only if Israel does not
other. 'good for Israel. The aver- appear to be an outpost or
age Israeli is imbued with a base for American in-
In fact, the division is in •
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ohm who are virtually anti-
most Israelis and a re- ing criticism and defense of
Nixon if not pro-McGovern. of
minder that he has done
The Israelis accuse the more for Israel than any •
Americans of flaccid liberal. other President.''
preoccupied with broad
For these forces the is-
largely meaningless to
sue is singular and clear:
1-rziel.
Nixon is and has been Is- -
The Americans accuse
rael's best friend. Period,
Israelis of being blinded
Nothing else about Nixon
chaminism. •
by outright
or his administration in
This debate, at times
general is of any interest
heated and acrimonious, is
or importance.
carried on not only ph-
During the past few weeks, '
vately but also in the news
according to thi• diplomatic
media.
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tronf.t. he wrote. the
U S. has eftectively closed
Egypt's option to unleash
sear against In addi-
tion, by refusims to treat the
Middle East as a matter to
be resolved at the summit
conference last Slay in Mos-
cow, the U.S. dashed an-,
other hope of Egyptian Pres-
ident Anwar Sadat that of
an imposed solution by the
two superpowers.
At the same time, Arneri-
can ohm—insofar as they
.
give vent to any public or
private opinums—oppose any
' manifestations that tend to
leave the impression that the
Israel government on any
level is behind Nixon. They
note, for example, that when
several American Jewish
leader s announced they
would support Nixon, the
news media including the •
state-owned television and
radio, gave this prominent
coverage. Conversely, when
several American Jewish
leaders urged restraint on
endorsements and attacks in
the presidential elections, the
news media buried this.
The Americans insist that
Israel is goim.: out on a
limb by w hat a mounts to
sanctifying Mr. Nixon's per-
formance even in relation to
Israel, and that expressing
any preference for Nixon.
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