14 Friday, February 1, 1980

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Presidential Candidates Reply to Magazine on M.E.

Yeshiva University in Los
Angeles. The replies appear
in the January-February is-
sue.
questionnaire
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responded directly to the
entire questionnaire.
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texts.
Carter said he "will work
diligently to bring us still
closer to Israel because close
U.S.-Israel ties are in the
moral and strategic interest
of both our nations." While
asserting his commitment
to "an undivided
Jerusalem" he did not indi-
cate whether this meant
that Jerusalem should be
Israel's capital or if it should
belong to Israel.
On a Palestinian state, he
reiterated what he has
stated on previous occasions
— that such a state would be
"a destabilizing factor in the
Middle East and would not
serve the interests of the
United States."
Sen. Edward Kennedy •
(D-Mass.), who is challeng-
ing Carter for the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomina-
tion, also advocated close
U.S. ties in his statement to
Jewish Living. Kennedy ob-
served, "The security of Is-
rael is indispensable to the
security of the United
States." He cautioned that
"We cannot and must not
trade the security of Israel
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President Carter reaffirmed
the "moral and strategic"
value of close U.S.-Israel
ties and said he was com-
mitted to "an undivided
Jerusalem" and opposed to a
Palestinian state in re-
sponse to questions submit-
ted to Lim and seven other
Presidential candidates by
the magazine Jewish Liv-
ing.
The questionnaire was
compiled by the editors of
the bi-monthly and by Rab-
bis Abraham Cooper and
Daniel Landes of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center for
Holocaust Studies at

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former Texas Gov. John
Connally expressed vie-
wpoints not calculated to
appeal to Jewish voters.
Connally replied to the
questionnaire by submit-
ting the text of the con-
troversial address he de-
livered at the Washington
Press Club last fall which
infuriated Jews by link-
ing a solution of the
Palestinian problem to
America's need for an as-
sured oil supply from the
Middle East.
Connally said, "Except
for minor border rectifica-
tions," Israel must with-
draw from the West Bank,
Gaza and the Golan
Heights, all of which would
be demilitarized. According
to Connally's plan, "Israel
will be permitted to lease
military strongpoints in
each of these areas." He
added that "the United
States should maintain a
strong military presence in
the vital area, including
major Air Force components
. .
In discussing the future of
Jerusalem, Connally men-
tioned several "Workable al-
ternatives," including
"Arab or Israeli sovereignty
based in residential pat-
terns (or) a dual sovereignty
for the entire municipal
region, with individuals de-
ciding which passport they
prefer to carry .. .."

He cited acceptance of UN
Security Council Resolution
242 as the criterion for talk-
ing with "the Palestinian
leadership."
Of all the candidates,

only former California
Gov. Ronald Reagan had
no answer for the ques-
tion "Should U.S. offi-
cials have formal contact
with Yasir Arafat's
PLO." Six others either
answered "no" or said
the U.S. should not
negotiate with the PLO
unless it recognizes Is-
rael's right to exist. The
six are Rep. John Ander-
son (R-Ill.); Sen. Howard
Baker (R-Tenn.); 'Gov.
Edmund Brown Jr. of
California; a Democrat;
former UN Ambassador
George Bush, a Republi-
can; Kennedy and Carter.
Anderson stressed that
the U.S. should not try to
impose a solution in the
Middle East because such a
solution would "tend to un-
ravel, leaving all the parties
worse off." On the question
of moving the U.S. Embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
he said he does not pre-
sently support such a move
but could see it as part of a
future "larger set of ac-
tions."
Discussing arms sales,
Anderson said that weapons
should be sold to Middle
East countries "only if there
is a compelling military re-
quirement consistent with
our own national security
interest." He added that Is-
rael's ability "to maintain
the regional military bal-
ance" must be considered.
Baker said the U.S. com-
mitment to the security of
Israel is fundamental to the
security of the U.S. He
added that he strongly sup-

ports the Camp David proc-
ess and that the U.S. can as-
sist the maintenance of
peace by fostering economic
development in the Middle
East. On the matter of arms
sales, Baker said his deci-
sion would be based on "the
degree of commonality of
interest between the United
States and the recipient
country and whether the
sale will enhance or degrade
the stability of the region."
Brown mentioned the
relationship
between
energy and the U.S. role
in the Middle East. "Until
the U.S. can develop its
energy independence,
the country's leadership
must recognize that Is-
rael is the foremost
democratic and stabiliz-
ing political and military
presence in the Middle
East," he said.
Brown added that on both
"moral grounds" and "the
self-interest of the United
States," he advocated con-
tinuing and strengthening
the commitment to Israel.
Reagan, who presented
his views in the form of a
xeroxed copy of an article
published in the Washing-
ton Post, expressed the need
for close U.S.-Israel ties. He
observed that Israel is "per-
haps the only remaining
strategic asset in the region
on which the United States
can truly rely."
He added that ". . . if Ad-
ministration policies should
serve to weaken Israel . . . a
determined barrier to
Soviet expansion in the
region would have been
withdrawn. . . ."

Black Paper Nominates Flirting
With PLO as Boner of the Year'

(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing editorial ap-
peared in the Jan. 26 edi-
tion of the Michigan
Chronicle, under the
headline "Boner Of The
Year.")
Among the top nomina-
tions for Boner of 1979 has
to be the ill-advised, lameb-
rained overtures made to
leaders of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization by
the leaders of such venera-
ble black organizations as
the NAACP, the Southern
Christian Leadership Con-
ference and Operation
PUSH. The widely reported
meetings between PLO
leader Yasir Arafat and our
best known civil rights
spokesmen were at best an
embarrassment and at
worst an abandonment of
what the civil rights strug-
gle is all about.
Symbolically, it was as if
Dr. Martin Luther King and
Lester Maddox (or Bull
Connor) were to embrace
publicly and acknowledge
that both sides are, after all,
good old boys fighting for
the same cause!
The whole thing was a
ridiculous bid to arouse
some notice by leaders who
have been watching their
own ranks thinning or dis-
appearing every year.

The civil rights move-
ment will regain some mer-
ited respectability when —
and only when — one of its
constitutive organizations
picks out a specific and
measurable goal (whether
it's passing a certain piece of
legislation or the election or
dbfeat) of a specific con-
gressman. If not this, then a
major campaign (like get-
ting blacks registered to
vote) and sticks with that
one great task for a reason-
able period of time instead
of jumping around from
issue to issue like a frog on a
frying pan. ,
The once powerful, coor-
dinated civil rights move-
ment is today all over the
map, proclaiming "what we
won't stand for" or how
"we're gonna hold our
enemies accountable." And
the world laughs at us.•They
know that kind of rhetoric is
as full of hot air as it was
when the Kingfish used to
mouth it on the old Amos 'n
Andy show.
The most potent evidence
of our bankruptcy was that
historic liaison this fall with
that old terrorist Arafat.
We do not claim that U.S.
blacks should not have their
own international agenda.
And we don't think our
priorities should always
coincide with those of the

administration in Washing-
ton. But we do state quite
plainly our resentment of
this stupid bid to grab head-
lines in the name of our
people.
Thank goodness abso-
lutely nothing came of Op-
eration Goof.

Board of Rabbis
Names President

NEW YORK — Rabbi
Judah I. Washer, of
Teaneck, N.J., was elected
president of the New York
Board of Rabbis 99th-
annual meeting last month.
Rabbi Washer has been
the spiritual leader of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck
since 1953. He is a graduate
of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary and
Yeshiva College, and holds
a Doctor of Religious Educa-
tion degree from the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh.
Elected with Rabbi
Washer were: Rabbi Morris
S. Friedman, Rabbi Nor-
man Kahan and Rabbi
Haskel Lookstein; vice
presidents; Rabbi Gunter
Hirschberg, Rabbi Gilbert
S. Rosenthal and Rabbi
Sheldon Zimmerman,
secretaries; and Rabbi
Louis C. Gerstein and Rabbi
Joseph P. Sternstein, trea-
surers.