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chastizes Demgover Jackson supporter
Washington (JTA) —
Vice President George Bush
denounced the three Demo-
cratic Presidential hopefuls
on Monday for not speaking
out against the anti-
Semitism expressed by
Louis Farrakhan, the Black
Muslim leader who is a
leading supporter of the
Rev. Jesse Jackson.
We (President Reagan
and members of his Ad-
ministration) denounce the
intrusion of anti-Semitism
into the American political
process and believe it has no
place in our system, and
we've got to speak out
against it wherever it comes
from," Bush told the 1,000
persons attending the 25th
annual policy conference of
the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
at the Washington Hilton
Hotel.
The Vice President, who
received a standing ovation
for his remarks, noted that
Jackson has been criticized
not only for failing to dis-
associate himself from Far-
rakhan but also for claim-
ing no responsibility in the
affair. Jackson on Sunday
disassociated himself from
Farrakhan's remarks
threatening a black jour-
nalist, Milton Coleman of
The Washington Post, and
the Jewish community ear-
lier, but refused to reject
Farrakhan's support.
"As shocking as I find
George Bush
Rev. Jackson's behavior, I
also cannot understand why
the other two candidates are
not willing to speak out,"
Bush said. Although Bush
had named former Vice
President Walter Mondale
and Senator Gary Hart (D-
Colo.) in his prepared text,
he did not mention them by
name when he delivered his
speech.
"Anti-Semitism, wher-
ever it appears, is a disgust-
ing disease, but particularly
when it appears in our coun-
try where its presence de-
files our most sacred tradi-
tions and institutions,"
Bush said.
Mondale and Hart both
strongly condemned the
remarks of Farrakhan
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while campaigning in
their best interests," Bush
Pittsburgh last Thursday,
said. "When that moment
and criticized the Rev. Jesse
does arrive, it is overwhelm-
Jackson for not repudiating ingly in Israel's interests for
Farrakhan's support.
the United States to act as
Farrakhan threatened the honest broker, just as it
the life of black journaliSt has in the past."
Milton ,Coleman, who first
But, Bush warned, "few
reported in the Post that actions could more under-
Jackson had referred to
mine our capacity to play
Jews as "Hymies" and to that broker's role with the
New York City as Arab states than for the
"Hymietown."
United States precipitously
"I believe that the threats to move its embassy from
on Milton Coleman and his Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
family are reprehensible. If Jerusalem is just too emo-
I were Rev. Jackson, I would tionally charged a symbol
repudiate the support of Mr. for Moslems as well as
Farrakhan," Hart told the Christians and Jews. The
Post.
U.S. position is clear: while
"It's an outrage," Mon- Jerusalem must remain
dale said. "I condemn it, and undivided, its final status
we all should. I think Jesse can only be resolved in
should use his influence to negotiations, not through
seek an apology or a retrac- unilateral acts." He added
tion from Rev. Farrakhan to that the United States "will
see that this is cleared up."
never attempt to impose a
Earlier in his speech to settlement."
the AIPAC conference,
Bush also stressed, "It is
Bush noted that under the in Israel's interests to see
Reagan Administration the America economically and
American delegation to the militarily strong. And yet
United Nations no longer some, who loudly profess to
sits quietly when anti- be Israel's strongest friends,
Semitic attacks are made are leading the charge to
against Israel in the U.N. weaken the defense budget
"We will not shrug such talk in this country."
off as mere rhetoric." Bush
The Vice President
said. "And our ambassador, criticized those who "spend
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, will so much time slamming our
not let stand unchallenged politics in Central America
equalizations of Zionism on human rights grounds"
with racism."
but have not spoken out
Most of the Vice when "the regime in
President's speech was de- Nicaragua has driven prac-
voted to stressing that there tically every Nicaraguan
is a "new mood of assured- Jew out of the country."
ness" in American foreign
Bush also said that if the
policy since the Reagan Soviet Union "wants to sig-
Administration came to nal us that it is truly in-
office and "more, perhaps, terested in a thawing of re-
than any other country, Is- lationships" they can do so
rael has benefitted directly" by ending their harassment
from this.
of Soviet Jews. "And they
Bush stressed that in the understand as well that
new strategic cooperation whenever, wherever, on
between Israel and the whatever topic they may
United States, "for the first meet with us, the issue of
time the United States has Soviet Jewry is potentially
acknowledged what Israel on the table," he said.
has always been — our
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foremost strategic friend in
the Middle East. And this in
Thomas Dine, executive
turn confirms America's director of AIPAC, warned
long-standing commitment that despite the "upbeat"
to ensure Israel's qualita- feeling in U.S.-Israel rela-
tive edge in armaments tions there is a "sense of
over any potential combina- foreboding" that no matter
tion of adversaries."
who is elected President in
He noted that in addition, November anti-Israel
Israel will now be receiving policies will once again be
for the first time all its pressed in Washington.
military and economic aid
This is because a "per-
as grants to "ensure that
verted"
peace process will
maintaining that edge
doesn't bankrupt Israel's be resurrected, Dine told
the AIPAC policy confer-
economy."
Bush stressed that Rea- ence. He said it would not
gan is still committed to his make any difference on this
Sept. 1, 1982 peace initia- whether the next President
tive and the belief that the is Ronald Reagan again,
United States can be an former Vice President Wal-
"honest broker" in Middle ter Mondale or Senator
East negotiations. But he Gary Hart, all of whom he
stressed that the United said have "authentic pro-
States needs to supply arms Israel beliefs."
"In the past few years, the
to Saudi Arabia and Jordan
real
and noble process that
as well as to the friendly
Persian Gulf states so that began at Camp David has
they are not "left to the been put aside and the term
mercy of the radical states `peace process' has been ex-
in the region" but are able to propriated as a code word
for a different policy that ac-
defend themselves.
tually consists of tilting
Acknowledging setbacks toward the Arabs and delib-
in Lebanon and King Hus-
erately provoking tensions
sein's recent decisions, "we with Israel," Dine charged.
believe that the time will
He predicted this "peace
come when all sides will see process," unlike the one in
a negotiated settlement ,in which the late Egyptia,,n
Thomas Dine
President Anwar Sadat
agreed to sit down and
negotiate, will be stalled by
King Hussein of Jordan,
who predictably will assert
that if only the United
States offers him enough
promises and weapons and
pledges of pressure against
Israel then, maybe, he will
consent to consider a
negotiation. This, only after
his preconditions are met.
Dine said that a second
step would follow which
would be to try to bring the
Palestine Liberation
Organization in support of
Hussein with more secret
negotiations with the PLO,
in violation of U.S. com-
mitments to Israel and with
promises to Yassir Arafat
that Jerusalem would be
"negotiable." He said this
would be followed by "ges-
tures" to Syria and the
Soviet Union "to gain their
permission to let Arafat
allow Hussein to negotiate."
Dine added that "what is
so troubling is that the
seeds of this perverted no-
tion of a peace process can
be found throughout the
Washington establishment
— among liberals as well as
conservatives, Republicans
as well as Democrats."
But Dine said supporters
of Israel "have real
strength" not only in that
Reagan, Hart and Mondale
"rank among the staunch-
est friends of Israel to run
for the office of President,"
but in the many supporters
of Israel running for the
House and Senate.
"We have to work now to
ensure that we never again
face the crisis that beset
U.S.-Israel relations in the
cold period of 1982-1983,"
he said. He said the military
and economic alliance be-
tween Israel and the United
States must be "nailed
down" so that "Israel will
then come to be seen, not as
a supplicant for American
handouts, but as a full-
fledged American partner,
helping to promote and-de-
fend American interests in
the Middle East.
Secondly, Dine stressed,
"we have to ensure that
whoever is ..in office in
January 1985, will return to
the real peace process, the
Camp David process and
will not instead pursue a
process predicated on
pressuring Israel." He said
this means "insisting that
U.S. policy not be based on
wishful thinking about
Arab intentions but rather
on a clear understanding
that it is the Arabs who
must first show a willing-
ness to make peace before
the United States and Israel
can be expected to respond."
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Senators differ on arms
supply to 'moderate' Arabs
Washington (JTA) — Two
U.S. Senators, both staunch
supporters of Israel, differed
Monday night over whether
the United States should
supply arms- to moderate
Arab states.
Sens. Daniel Inouye (D-
Hawaii) and Robert Dole
(R-Kan.) expressed their
views during a banquet at
the 25th annual policy
meeting of the American Is-
rael Public Affairs Commit-.
tee (AIPAC) at the Wash-
ington Hilton Hotel.
Inouye said that on the
one hand the United States
says to Israel "We love you,
you are important" and on
the other it provides
"AWACS sold to the
and would have supplied
shoulder-fired Stinger
anti-aircraft missiles to
Jordan if it wasn't for "your
efforts." He said this posi-
tion of "evenhandedness" at
best confuses the countries
in the Middle East and at
worst implies "we really
don't mean what we are say-
ing."
But Dole said the
`AWACS" sold to the
Saudis were new but so was
the security situation in the
region following the over-
throw of the Shah of Iran
and the rise of the ayatol-
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Dole maintained that "it
is precisely because the
United States and Israel
share a stragegic relation-
ship that we are ligiti-
mately concerned over the
prospect of the Soviet bear
lumbering into the Middle
East. Because we want to
discourage radical regimes
from stepping up the pres-
sure against Israel we ought
to grasp the importance of
aiding moderate Arab
states to ward off such
forces."
Dole also said that while
he "longs for the day" when
the U.S. Embassy can be
moved to Jerusalem, "I have
little patience with candi-
dates who go into contor-
tions to demonstrate their
new-found support for slIch
a move a few days before an
important primary in a
state with a large Jewish
electorate. Their friendship,
like their reliability, is open
to question."
Rabbi chairman
New York — Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik,
leading talmudic scholar
and theologian, will be hon-
orary chairman of the 86th
anniversary dinner of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America
on May 13 in New York.