Eight Jewish Groups Deplore Partisan
Appeals Based Solely on Israel Support
NEW YORK (JTA) — The has collided with a new Mid- have pled ,zed to keep the
-.election of American sup- die Fast poll, y being urged .F;th Fleet :her, - ( in the
port for Israel as the pre- on him by the State Depart- Mediterranean).
Black Congressman Calls
dominent issue to win Jew- ment.
According to Anderson. the Nixon, McGovern,
ish votes in the presidential
election campaign was de- I" S. diplomatic mission in AJCommittee Racist
WASHINGTON (JTA)
plored by eight major Jew- Cairo has reported that the
ish organizations in a state- E-vplian-Soviet split is "far Rep. Louis Stokes (D. Ohio),
more significant than Wash- a leading spokesman in the
ment issued here.
Appeals "stating or soil- ington had dared to hope" Congressional Black Caucus
Besting that the votes of all and that the time is ripe for and a top figure at the Black
or most Jews for parties or thU•S. to improve its reta- National Political Convention
candidates will or should be lions with Egyptian Presi- in Gary, Ind. last March.
consider-
• dent Anwar
sharply
Sadat.
' denounced President
determined by this
Anderson claimed that the Nixon and his Democratic
ation alone are a disservice
to the nation and to Jewish State Department has urged challenger, Sen. George Mc-
- a little pressure on Israel i Govern, for their pledges to
voters," the statement de- :
, to soften its terms" as a oppose quotas in federal pro-
elated.
for equal employ-
to improve U.S.
eanm
that Jews
It
It em p individual
Ameri- standing in Egypt and as a m
gr
vote as
vote
Stokes also assailed the
cans "on controversial and possible road to a Mid East
settlement. "President Nixon American Jewish Committee
complex issues that are at ' has forbidden the slightest for having allegedly exacted
stake in any election" and pressure on Israel, however, those pledges from the presi-
that Jewish interests influ- while he is courting Jewish dential candidates "in re-
ence Jewish voters just as , • otes in the presidential cam- turn for Jewish votes."
other group interests influ- ;pawn," Anderson wrote.
Stokes stated his views in
e n c e members of other
Partisan politics over a letter to Hyman Bookbind-
groups.
er,
Washington representa-
America's presidential elec-
The organizations that tions has begun in Israel. tive of the AJCommittee,
signed the statement were Pro-Nixon and pro-McGovern which he released to the
the American Jewish Com- groups h a v e sprung up press.
Stokes noted in his letter
mittee, American J e wish among the country's 50,00
Congress, Bnai Brith Anti- 1 Americans — permanent that "There is a fundamental
Defamation League, Jewish 1 and olim — although the distinction to be drawn be-
Labor Committee, Jewish I numbers initially involved in tween the quotas that were
applied in pre-war Germany
W a r Veterans, National I each are minute.
Council of Jewish Women, 1 A group supporting the re- which put a ceiling on the
Union of American Hebrew election of President Nixon number of Jews in any given
Congregations and the United I was established here with a area" and the quotas which
Synagogue of America. membership of 15, most of minority Americans are de-
Columnist Jack Anderson I them olim who have re- manding in federal programs
reported that President Nix- tamed their American citi- which would serve only as a
on's pursuit of Jewish votes zenship and can cast absen- floor.
tee ballots.
A pro-McGovern group, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"Americans in Israel for Mc-
Friday, Sept. 3,1972-11
Govern," was established at
about the same time. No
numbers were immediately
available.
Nixon Mid East Policy
to change, McGovern
Adviser Believes
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
OPEN SUNDAYS
Prof. Abraham Chayes, Sen.
George McGovern's foreign ,
10 TO 5
policy adviser. claimed here
that President Nixon's Mid-
dle East policy would change
as a result of the Soviet pull-
out from Egypt.
Chayes, who was in Israel
on a five-day visit to explain
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candidate's views to Israeli
political leaders, alleged that
Nixon viewed Israel's secur-
ity in cold war, bulwark-
against-communism terms.
According to Chayes, the
Nixon administration and es-
pecially the President's na-
tional security adviser, Hen-
ry Kissinger, believed in
summitry to solve world
problems.
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lie stated A1c':overn be-
that foreign policy
lieved
should not be conducted by
the White house to the extent •
that it was under Nixon. Ile
acknowledged that a greater.
role for the State Depart-
ment - does not sound good
for Israel" bat said McGov-
ern was aware of the State
Department's pro - Arab his-
tory and that inevitably the
major decisions must involve
the White House.
Sen. Frank Church (D.
Idaho) said on his return to
Washington from Israel that.
Israeli military officers do
not regard American naval
bases in Greece "as vital to
the security of Israel so long
as the 6th Fleet remains in
the Mediterranean."
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Senate Foreign Relations
I Committee, said that Israel
• was "fully aware" that both
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