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CANDLELIGHTING AT 6:50 P.M.
Israel and the campaign
BY WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
Washington — President Ronald
Reagan's nationally televised news
conference on April 4 reinforced some
longstanding impressions about his
policies in the Middle East. And that
could portend serious problems in his
quest for American Jewish support
against his Democratic challenger in
November.
Shortly after Reagan stopped an-
swerin.g reporters' questions in the
East Room of the White House, some of
his top Jewish supporters active in his
re-election campaign started to worry
about the President's statements,
especially his comments about main-
taining an "evenhanded" approach to
the Arab-Israeli conflict. Reagan also
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Middle man
Walter Mondale and Gary Hart have been so busy denouncing
each other that Jesse Jackson not only hasn't had his policies seriously
questioned but he's coming across as a calm mediator. Shouldn't there be
some scrutiny of Jackson's ideas about making major cuts in defense,
spending large sums on social issues, supporting Third World liberation
movements and creating a Palestinian state? Instead, we have the image of
Mondale and Hart firing verbal darts at each other over who advocated which
cause (that they agreed on) first, while Jackson softly purrs about
maintaining a spirit of decency.
The problem is that the front-runners don't want to acknowledge the fact
that Jackson hasn't gone away. But his candidacy must not be dismissed. His
appeal seems to be growing as are the prospects of his role as a potential
powermaker at the Democratic National Convention this summer. By not
raising legitimate questions about Rev. Jackson's policies — including his
refusal to remove himself from some of his more radical followers'
anti-Semitic statements and threats — Vice President Mondale and Senator
Hart are only helping Jackson's image and candidacy.
Frank Church
American Jews and Israel lost a sincere friend this week in Frank
Church, the former Idaho Senator who died of cancer at the age of 59.
A former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Church
was an outspoken advocate of the Jewish state and the cause of Soviet Jewry.
He was also a courageous leader against the war in Vietnam and in 1966
broke with the Johnson Administration by urging a halt in the bombing.
Church was a brilliant , dedicated and eloquent statesman during his 24
years in the Senate. One of six Democratic Senators targeted for defeat in
1980 by conservative political organizations, he did not let his support of the
causes he believed in end with his political career.
His voice of reason and compassion will be missed by all who heard him
speak out for freedom and human dignity.
Ronald Reagan
expressed hope that Jordan's King
Hussein might still agree to enter
peace talks with Israel.
His use of the word "evenhanded"
— long considered a codeword among
Middle East observers — was seen in
Washington as referring indirectly to
his Administration's strong efforts to
block passage in Congress of legisla-
tion forcing the transfer of the U.S.
Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
There was no specific reference made
to the embassy issue at the news con-
ference.
But both Democratic frontrun-
ners, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart,
support an embassy move. Reagan and
the third Democratic candidate, Rev.
Jesse Jackson, oppose it, fearing it
would prejudice the final status of the
city and might even spark anti-
American violence throughout the
Arab and Moslem worlds. The issue
has been widely debated and pub-
licized in the United States in recent
weeks. 1
At the same time, Reagan did not
criticize in any way King Hussein for
lashing out against the United States
last month and for refusing to get in-
volved in the U.S.-sponsored peace
process. This also was in marked con-
trast to the latest spate of statements
made by both Mondale and Hart bit-
terly condemning Hussein's refusal to
sit down around a negotiating table
with Israel.
Instead, the President simply re-
peated what he has said on so many
occasions in the past — namely that
his Sept. 1, 1982 Arab-Israeli peace
initiative "continues to be our plan."
"I believe that King Hussein still
feels and believes that he would have
to be an important part, being the next
door neighbor to Israel, in bringing
about such negotiations," Reagan
said.
"I continue to believe in this. This
is the answer. It's what started us from
the very beginning in the Middle East
— to continue the Camp David proc-
ess, to persuade other nations to do
what Egypt did in making that peace."
Reagan said that at the present
moment, you have a group of Arab na-
tions who still have never retreated
from their position that Israel does not
have a right to exist as a nation, and
we're trying to persuade them that we
can be evenhanded, and we're not try-
ing to dictate any peace of any kind,
that we simply want to be of help if we
can as intermediary in bringing about
a negotiation that will erase the issues
and the problems that have kept them
apart so that they can settle back and
live in peace together. We're going to
continue to try to do it."
That statement was clearly de-
signed to ease apparently mounting
anti-American sentiment in the Arab
world. The President has been in-
formed by his foreign policy advisers,
including Secretary of State George
Shultz, that the Jerusalem embassy
issue has badly damaged United
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The unifying Seder
A basic ideal motivates the observance of Passover. It is the unification of
the family, its retention as a family unit.
Pride in Israel's gifts to mankind are manifold. The Sabbath, as a day of
rest, has given humanity an inspiration to end the enslavement of people who
labored endlessly without the period of relaxation that is vital for mind and
body.
Acquisition of faith in higher ideals stemming from religious principles
rooted in ethical teachings have given Jewry inerasable status.
Commandments have been handed down that call for dedication to
humanitarianism without which man could turn into beast.
An ideal Jewry is credited' with what has been the envy of many, the
family unity that has distinguished Jews from time immemorial.
Passover gave emphasis to that high ideal. The Seder has been an
inspiration and a means of bringing families together, of uniting them in a
single purpose: that of linking the generations with an historic continuity
and of linking kinsmen in the inspiration that stems from the people's
heritage.
Because the Seder does unite the family, it also unites the community.
The larger body depends upon the strength of the individual units within it,
and when the familial principles conquer, the people into which it is linked
becomes indestructible.
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