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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10 Friday, August 1, 1980
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Media Was Silent on Republican Support for Israel
VOTE AUG 5TH
PATRICIA A. KELLY
State Representative -- 69th District
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By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
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fairs was highlighted in the
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news and in commentaries
during the winter and
through the spring, usually
marked by denunciations of
Israel, the general media
was silent on the strong
pro-Israel plank in the Re-
publican Party platform
that was adopted at its con-
vention in Detroit.
Neither was attention
given to the pro-Israeli
statements by Presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan in
his first news conference as
nominee and in his ac-
ceptance speech at the GOP
convention.
The media also was
strangely quiet about the
in-fighting between the
adherants of President Car-
ter and Sen. Edward Ken-
nedy (D-Mass.) when the
Democratic Party's plat-
form was being written in
Washington a month ear-
lier. That fight was over
whether the platform
should say, as it did in 1976,
that the U.S. embassy
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should be moved from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Carterites wanted
to qualify that plank, the
Kennedyites balked and
in the end the qualifica-
tion was moved to an-
other place in the plank.
While other Carter-
Kennedy squabbles were
extensively reported at
the platform writing, the
difference on support for
Israel was virtually ig-
nored.
A general attitude
seemed to be that platforms
are meaningless because
Presidential candidates
don't feel bound by them.
Some reporters felt support
for Israel in platforms was
the usual stance for elec-
tioneering purposes.
* * *
The 98 Jewish delegates
among the 1994 delegates
at the Republican conven-
tion were divided like the
others over Vice President-
ial candidates.
A significant fact about
the size of the Jewish
number of delegates is that
it formed about 41/2 percent
of the total, about double
America's Jewish popula-
tion.
* * *
The right and liberal
wings of the Republican
leadership were both repre-
sented at the American Is-
rael Public Affairs Commit-
tee's reception for Jewish
delegates and others at the
Detroit Plaza Hotel.
Of the approximately
350 that attended there
were at least a dozen
Senators and a score of
Representatives. The
chief attraction included
Elizabeth Taylor, ac-
companied by her hus-
band, Virginia Senator
John Warner, and Mrs.
Strom Thurmond, wife of
the conservative South
Carolina Senator who
could not attend.
Fred Gottfurcht, a Los
Angeles investment banker
who is a founder of the Na-
tional Coalition for Reagan
and has been backing Re-
agan since 1966, is the
father-in-law of Rabbi
Richard Hertz of Detroit's
oldest congregation, Tem-
ple Beth El. Max Fisher,
"Mr. Republican," is a
member of it. Gottfurcht
was a member of the
California delegation at the
GOP convention.
* * *
The "Monthly Detroit," a
slick 200-page magazine
selling for $1.50 a copy, de-
voted the cover of its July
issue to "Max Fisher —
Power Broker."
The magazine describes
"the permanent govern-
ment" as that elite band of
wealthy men and academics
whose steady influence on
national affairs continues
virtually undisturbed by
the temporary changes In
leadership occasioned by
elections or shifts in politi-
cal power.
In Fisher's case, De-
troit's mayors, Michi-
gan's governors and
America's Presidents
come and go but Max
Fisher remains a con-
stant force in the affairs
of the city, the state, the
nation, and to some ex-
tent, the planet."-
Detroit Renaissance Inc.,
which led Detroit's big
businesses to favor the vast
changes from the ware-
houses and slums on De-
troit's riverfront to the
magnificent complex
known as Renaissance Cen-
ter, where the convention
took place, was Fisher's idea
in 1970. He organized it and
tt Your
Of flee
became its first — and thus
far — its only chairman.
Along with his friend and
partner, Al Taubman, De-
troit Renaissance was be-
hind Henry Ford's decision
to build the center.
How important is Fisher
to the Republicans?
Stephen Bull, President Ni-
xon's appointments secre-
tary, used to watch the
power brokers come and go
through the Oval Office. "Of
course, I know Mr. Fisher,"
Bull said. "And it's always
Mister Fisher. I think he is
probably the most promi-
nent Republican in
country."
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