Friday, September 5, 1980 13
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Kemp Says Reagan Won't Abandon Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.)
declared that Republican
Presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan's "stub-
bornness" on Taiwan
demonstrates he would
never abandon Israel. It
shows that a Reagan Ad-
ministration "will not be-
tray our allies nor our com-
mitments," he said.
Kemp offered this expla-
nation of Reagan's controv-
ersial statement that he
would restore official rela-
tions with Taiwan to nearly
100 Jews, a majority of
them rabbis, who crowded
into the backyard garden at
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
William Diamond on Man-
hattan's Upper East Side.
The gathering, hosted by
Diamond and Rabbi
Seymour Siegel, of the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America and a
member of the advisory
committee of the Reagan-
Bush campaign, heard an-
swers to questions on
Reagan's Middle East policy
from leading Jewish mem-
bers of the Reagan cam-
paign.
Max Fisher of Detroit,
co-chairman of the Na-
tional Coalition for Re-
agan, said that Reagan
supports Israel as an ally
and as the o..aly country in
the Middle East that can
be relied upon to prevent
a Communist takeover of
the region.
Fisher said that under the
Nixon and Ford Adminis-
trations, if there was some
action to be taken against
Israel by the U.S., Israel
was consulted first and the
situation was discussed. He
charged that under the Car-
ter Administration, the
Administration has acted
first without discussing it
with Israel.
American Jewish leaders
also had input under the
former Republican Ad-
ministrations, Fisher said.
"We had accessto the White
House on these issues." But
he said that under Carter
there was a "revolving door"
process in which the
President only shook hands
with Jewish leaders but did
not listen to them.
When asked about
Reagan's views on
Jerusalem, George Klein, a
New York businessman and
leading Republican, said
that Reagan has told Jewish
leaders that he believes in
an undivided Jerusalem,
"under the sovereignty of
Israel." But Klein said that
Reagan felt that he should
make no statement on mov-
ing the U.S. embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem since
this is a "sensitive" issue.
In a related develop-
ment, Reagan issued the
following statement:
"I understand from news-
paper accounts that my
candidacy has been
endorsed by an organization
which calls itself the Invisi-
ble Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan.
"I utterly reject that
endorsement.
"I reject — indeed I detest
— the very basis of the Ku
Klux Klan and similar
organizations which are
founded on racial hatred
and which condone the use
of violence to secure their
objectives . . .
In Washington, in the
second meeting last week
of politically active
Jewish citizens with
President Carter at the
White House, 20 from the
New York City area met .
with him in ancther
hour-long session and af-
terward several ex-
pressed complete satis-
faction with Carter's pol-
icy toward Israel, includ-
ing the U.S. abstention on
the Jerusalem resolution
in the United Nations Se-
curity Council.
Stanley Lowell, former
head of the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry,
speaking apparently on be-
half of the Jewish group,
said its members would re-
turn to New York to or-
ganize "a strong campaign"
for the Carter-Mondale tic-
ket."
Lowell said he was "not
free to explain" the
President's purpose in di-
recting the U.S. abstention
at the Council last week but
he left the impression that it
was related to the position
of "various Arab countries
and Egypt" and "how im-
portant it was to abstain
rather than veto." Lowell
said that "over the long
range, what is best for Israel
and the United States was
abstention."
Rabbi Usher Kirshblum
of Kew Garden Hills, N.Y.,
said he has backed Carter
since 1976.
Kalman Sultanik, a
member of the presidium
of the Confederation of
General Zionists, dis-
agreed with other Jews
at the meeting. He said
"President Carter was
very convincing" but "I
am not satisfied regard-
ing Jerusalem. It is not a
political question."
The President has invited
members of the Conference
of Presidents of. Major
American Jewish Organ-
izations to the White House
Monday. In addition, mem-
bers of the National Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry and
the New York Board of
Rabbis will meet the
President.
Meanwhile, former White
House Counsel Robert J.
Lipshutz charged that de-
fense policies advocated by
presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan are based on
"petrified ideas" and would
"drain and weaken our na-
tion."
Representing President
Carter in an address to the
national convention of
Jewish War Veterans, Lip-
shutz cited as an example .
Reagan's advocacy of pro-
ducing quantities of B-1
bombers, which he said
would be immediately obso-
lete because the bomber
cannot penetrate Soviet air
defenses.
this
of
"Instead
bomber, President Car-
ter chose the modern
cruise missile, which re-
nders the whole expen-
sive Sovier air defense
system ineffective, and
which will be in large
production within a mat-
ter of months, not years,"
said Lishutz.
"The Reagan administra-
tion would waste billions of
dollars on defense relics, on
vulnerable bombers, on
mothball ships, on obsolete
missiles, and on petrified
ideas," Lipshutz declared.
It also was learned that
Independent President-
ial candidate John B.
Anderson expressed
dismay over the renewed
oppression of Soviet
Jewry and said such op-
pression "must not go
unchallenged by the
United States."
In a statement issued in
Washington, Anderson said
he was "deeply disturbed to
learn that the number of
Soviets emigrating, com-
pared to last year, has been
slashed by 50 percent.
Equally troubling," he con-
tinued, "are reports that a
calculated program of in-
timidation throughout the
Soviet Union is discourag-
ing many would-be emi-
grants from even applying
for permission to leave. The
United States must not be
silent now, while innocent
refuseniks are being tried
for 'parasitism,' and while
former prisoners of con-
science are still being
harassed and refused
visas."
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