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CANDLELIGHTING AT 6:28 P.M.
VOL. LXXXV. No. 4
Hussein's logic
The Arabs have never lost a chance at missing an opportunity."
That's the way Abba Eban once summed up Mideast events and never
was he more accurate than this past week, when King Hussein of Jordan
ruled out direct negotiations with Israel. A month after he made a cordial
visit to the White House and less than 24 hours after President Reagan urged
a United Jewish Appeal group to support the sale of 1,600 Stinger missiles to
Jordan, Hussein rejected Reagan's stated policy of encouraging Jordan to
enter peace talks with the Israelis. "I now realize that principles mean
nothing to the U.S.," the king contended. He added that because of its strong
support for Israel, the United States has forsaken its position as a
super-power" and lost "credibility" as a mediator in the Arab-Israel conflict.
So Ronald Reagan goes out of his way to support Jordan and, in return,
Hussein tells the U.S. to go fly a kite.
Undaunted (at least publicly), a White House official said this week that
the United States will soon send a delegation to the Mideast to resume the
peace process. One wonders what it will take for the U.S. to come to the
painful but honest realization that Jordan's king is not interested in taking
risks for peace. He never has been. And though the U.S. goes out of its way to
cater to him, there are no indications that he will ever be able to look out for
anyone other than his royal highness.
Respect for prayer
This nation's highest legislative body rose to new heights with a decision
on a most debatable subject.
Voting down, overwhelmingly, a proposal that would have negated a
basic principle cherished from the time of the founding of this nation, it
glorified prayer by granting it the respect due it when it is practiced in home,
church, synagogue and mosque.
Is Israel going to lose its
UN friend, Kirkpatrick?
By WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
Washington — As far as Israel is
concerned, Jeane Kirkpatrick's tenure
at the United Nations has made a dif-
ference — a very positive one, indeed.
The Ambassador, of course, has
established a well-earned reputation
as a great champion of Israel, in the
tradition of one of her recent predeces-
sors, Democratic Senator Daniel Pat-
rick Moynihan of New York, and in
marked contrast to her two immediate
predecessors in the Carter Adminis-
tration, Andrew Young and Donald
McHenry.
The influence and prestige of the
UN has dramatically decreased in re-
cent years, but that forum can still
play a role in shaping international
attitudes. Exactly how the chief U.S.
delegate behaves, therefore, does have
an impact, not only around the world,
but within the United States as well.
Kirkpatrick has not been shy in
making her views well known, as was
underlined, on March 13 by President
Ronald Reagan himself. The
President, in his address before the
Young Leadership of the United
Jewish Appeal, referred to the many
anti-Israeli declarations made at the
UN in recent years.
"In the United Nations," Reagan
told the 2,000 UJA delegates who had
gathered at the Washing Lon Hilton
Hotel, "Iran's representative once
called Israel 'a cancerous growth,' and
Libya's representative has referred to
the people of Israel as the most vile
people upon earth.' This so-called
`anti-Zionism' is just another- mask for
vicious anti-Semitism, and that's
something the United States will not
tolerate."
The President then quoted from a
letter he recently wrote to Stanley
Blend, president of the Jewish Federa-
tion of San Antonio. The lesson of his-
tory is overwhelmingly clear," Reagan
said. "Silence is never an acceptable
response to anti-Semitism."
He then added: "UN Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick is our leader on
Blitzer is Washington correspondent of the
Jerusalem Post.
this. Let me assure you of one thing
about Jeane: She is a very tenacious
woman. She has defended Israel and
stood up for human rights with persis-
tence and courage. But just so no one
gets any ideas, I will be blunt: If Israel
is ever forced to walk out of the UN,
the United States and Israel will walk
out together."
Jeane Kirkpatrick
That was the third time that the
President has made that statement
about leaving the UN. At the UJA
meeting, it drew the most enthusiastic
outburst of applause, including — at
that point — a standing ovation.
Administration officials credited
Kirkpatrick as being the driving force
in convincing the President to adopt
that tough stance which should forec-
lose the need for either U.S. or Israel to
leave the world body. The United
States continues to finance about 25
percent of the UN's budget. Israel's
standing there is seen as secure — so
long as the international community
wants the U.S. to continue to partici-
pate.
Reagan, his aides said, was also
strongly influenced by the very
hardline position taken by many
members of Congress on this issue. If
Israel were ever forced to leave the
UN, Congress almost certainly would
suspend all funding; this has been
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Senatorial action rejecting the pressures that were generated by those
desiring to legislate religion gave notice that a basic American ideal, which
keeps asserting that this nation is for all combined — Christian and Jewish
and Moslem plus all other faiths — and that these principles are not to be
trifled with.
Senatorial action affirming such an ideal in no sense questions the
sincerity of the advocates supporting a Constitutional Amendment calling for
approval of prayer in the schools. Backers of such legislation, including the
President of the United Stats, should be credited with a sincerity which the
overwhelming body of senior legislators judges as misleading. Even if it is to
be accepted as fact that more than 80 percent of the American people favor
such an amendment to the Constitution, its moral illegitimacy, its lack of
realism, its threat to genuine religious freedom must again and again be
recognized and the Separation Principle adopted as a basic rule for all
Americans. The U.S. Senate did so. More power to such courage when
legislators act to reject a threat to religious liberty, especially in the current
attempt to force a religious concept upon this nation. It was accompanied by
another danger: that of injecting religion politically into a Presidential
campaign.
Indeed, more power to the good judgment thus exercised by the U.S.
Senate.
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