92 Friday, April 13, 1984 Su s h THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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 To: The Jewish News 1 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075-4491 WEI JUST 0 From Paste in old label : NAME L Effective Date 7. Mir 777711777 4 - /10,_ 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 • 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." * * * 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- lah." . r•v • • 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.