26 Friday, August 15, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Moynihan's Dem Convention Speech Stresses Support for Israel NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Daniel Moynihan of New York stressed to the Democratic National Con- vention on Monday night that a Democratic adminis- tration will fulfill the pledge in the party's plat- form to move the U.S. em- bassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to maintain the security of Is- rael. Noting that there "are those who will not accept" the peace achieved between Israel and Egypt, Moynihan declared: "May we suggest they read the platform of the Democratic Party, for here we speak in perfect confidence for the whole na- tion. 'Jerusalem,' the plat- form declares, 'should re- main forever undivided . . Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.' We will move our embassy there. 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But at a press conference in New York, the head of the National Asso- ciation of Arab Americans (NAAA) called Moynihan's remarks a "radical escala- tion" of what he termed an already "unbalanced" posi- tion by the Democratic Party in support of Israel. James Sams, NAAA president, said that Ameri- cans understood that Moynihan's remarks were "campaign rhetoric." But he said these statements are taken seriously abroad and "undermine" the United States' position in the Mid- dle East and elsewhere. Sams said that the same thing was true for the Mid- dle East section of the Democratic Party's plat- form which the convention adopted without any opposi- tion. He said the platform now reads like a "statement of Israeli aspirations and Is- raeli policy" rather. than U.S. policy. He said it will have a damaging effect on U.S. policy in the Arab world and on the U.S. efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace agreement in the Mideast. He noted that the Republican platform was also "unbalanced" in favor of Israel. Sams said he was particu- larly concerned about a new rule that the Democratic Convention adopted requir- ing the Presidential candi- date to sign a statementoof support for the policies out- lined in the platform. He said that if Carter signed it he would be going against some of the princi- ples of his own Administra- tion. The rule was worked out by the Carter and Kennedy forces earlier this week principally to ensure that whoever was named the Presidential candidate would support the economic sections of the platform. Sams noted that if Car- ter was to go along with the platform position to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem this would cause many Arab states to carry out their threat to break off relations with the U.S. He said the NAAA calls for a differ- ent Mideast platform which would declare that the "United States must remain free and unfet- tered in its efforts to achieve Middle East peace in order to be true to the American national interest and to the needs of all the American people." The NAAA's proposed plank states: "We believe that all the principal parties to the conflict must be full participants in diplomatic negotiations. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs have legitimate rights and inter- ests which require equal re- spect and recognition by the world community, includ- ing the right of self- determination achieved by Israel and still denied to the Palestinians." * * *.- tence to be included in the paragraph on moving the U.S. embassy, but in a com- promise with the Kennedy forces it was placed in an earlier section of the Mideast platform. The platform declared that the U.S. has strengthened its commit- ment to Israel. "Nearly half of all U.S. aid to Israel since its creation as a sovereign state — more than $10 bil- lion — has been requested during the last 3 1/2 years," the platform notes. "We provide Israel with modern military equipment and we fully support Israel's efforts Platform Planks to create a just and lasting Support Israel peace with its Arab The Democratic Party neighbors." The platform outlines platform declares that "We must persevere with the the principles that U.S. Middle East peace process. policy should continue to There is no viable alterna- be guided by as: tive. We can welcome initia- • "UN Security Council tives from other countries so Resolution 242, unchanged, long as they contribute to and the Camp David ac- the Camp David process cords are the basis for peace that is leading toward a in the Middle East. We sup- comprehensive peace in port Israel's security and that region. But we will op- will continue to provide pose efforts that undermine military and economic aid Camp David while offering to that end." A similar no viable alternative. Our pledge is made in the de- goal is to see the achieve- fense section of the plat- ment of a comprehensive form. • "We pledge not to pro- peace for all parties." Peace in the Middle East vide Israel's potential is listed as a major objective enemies with sophisticated in the foreign policy section. offensive equipment that It stresses that this objec- could endanger the security tive is one of both "morality of Israel," the Mideast sec- and national security." The tion continues. "Jerusalem platform declares that the should remain forever un- U.S. "feels a profound moral divided, with free access to obligation to sustain and the holy places for people of assure the security of Israel. all faiths. That is why our relation- • "We oppose creation of ship with Israel is, in most an independent Palestinian respects, a unique one. Is- state. We will not negotiate rael is the single democracy, with or recognize the Pales- the most stable govern- tine Liberation Organiza- ment, the most strategic tion, unless and until it ac- asset and our closest ally in cepts Israel's right to exist and UN Security Council the region. "To fulfill this impera- _Resolutions 242 and 338. It tive we must move is also long past time for an toward peace in the Mid- end to all terrorism and dle East. Without peace other . acts of violence there is a growing pros- against Israel. pect, indeed inevitability, • "We have not and that this region will be- will not use our aid to Is- come radicalized, sus- rael as a bargaining tool; ceptible to foreign intru- and we will never permit sion, and possibly in- oil policies to influence volved in another war. our policy toward peace Thus, peace in the Middle or our support for Israel. East also is vital for our • "As stated in the 1976 platform, the Democratic national security." The long Middle East sec- Party recognizes and sup- tion describes Carter's ef- ports the established status forts along with Israeli of Jerusalem as the capital Premier Menahem Begin of Israel, with free access to and Egyptian President all its holy places provided Anwar Sadat in achieving a to all faiths. As a symbol of peace treaty. "In sum, this this stand, the U.S. embassy Democratic Administration should be moved from Tel has done more to achieve Is- Aviv to Jerusalem. • "Elsewhere in the Mid- rael's dream of peace than any other Administration dle East, we support the im- in 30 years," the platform provement of relations with moderate Arab states. We declares. Noting that the U.S. is a support the independence, full partner in the au- sovereignty and integrity of tonomy talks between Lebanon. We call upon all Egypt and Israel, the plat- states in the region to sup- form stresses that "It is rec- port the historic efforts of ognized that the Democratic Israel and Egypt to build a Administration has to pro- comprehensive peace." The Mideast section also ceed with special care and sensitivity resulting from pledges that the U.S. will its deep engagement in the take "needed measures to delicate process of promot- protect American interests ing a wider peace for Israel." in the Persian Gulf," con- Carter's supporters on the demns the government of platform committee had Iran for the holding of originally wanted this sen- American hostages and stresses the need to "end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil." In other sections of the platform, a promise is made that "the Demo- cratic Administration will also seek to reverse the recent sharp downturn in Soviet Jewish emigration and to obtain the release of dis- sidents now detained in the Soviet Union, includ- ing 41 members of the Helsinki Watch Groups who are in Soviet prisons, labor camps and banishment for their human rights activity." In the human rights sec- tion, the platform says "We support measures designed to restrict trade with the Soviet Union until such time as Soviet emigration policy is made fair and non- restrictive," an apparent reference to the Jackson/ Vanik Amendment to the U.S. Trade Act. The plat- form also supports "ratifica- tion of the Genocide Con- vention and the Interna- tional Covenants on Human . Rights as soon as possible." * * * 10 Percent of Dem Delegates Were Jewish NEW YORK (JTA) — More than 10 percent of the 3,381 delegates to the Democratic National • Con- vention were Jewish, ac- cording to figures gathered by the American Israel Pub- lic Affairs Committee (AIPAC). This amounts to about 400 Jewish delegates compared with 93 Jewish delegates at the GOP Con- vention last month in De- troit. The number of Jewish delegates at the GOP Con- vention amounted to about five percent of 1,994 Repub- lican delegates. Officials of AIPAC, who held a reception Monday night honoring the Demo- cratic members of the 96th Congrfws at the convention, said that their survey of the convention delegates showed that Jews are among the members of 32 state delegations while Jews were among the mem- bers of only 26 state delega- tions at the GOP Conven- tion. The largest number oi Jewish delegates, a survey' by the Jewish Telegraph4 Agency disclosed, was in th New York delegation, with 97 Jews out of 282 dele- gates. Another large con- tingent of Jewish delegates — 45 in all — was part of the 306-member delegation from California. Bnai Brith Hears the Candidates WASHINGTON — Presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and John Anderson will address the biennial convention of Bnai Brith International — and President Carter is ex- pected to join them — when the world's largest Jewish service organization con- venes in Washington Labor Day week.