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BY MORRIS J. AMITAY
Special to The Jewish News

Only seven months into
President Reagan's second term,
speculation in Washington as to
his successor in 1988 has been
fueled by press accounts of the
political maneuverings of two
prominent Republicans, Vice
President George Bush and
Representative Jack Kemp of
New York.
What has already emerged as
far as friends of Israel are con-
cerned is that Jack Kemp is one of
the most staunch and consistent
supporters of a secure Israel.
George Bush, on the other hand, is
at this point a question mark at
best.

high school friends that he gained
a sense of what it is to be Jewish
and what Israel and the Holocaust
were all about.
Kemp's wife, Joanne, has
headed a Congressional wives
group in support of Soviet Jewry.
sharing her husband's activisn .
On paper, Vice President Bush
has one of the strongest "resumes"
in Washington, including sub-
stantial foreign affairs experi-
ence. Bush has served as a two-
term member of the House (He
failed in a 1970 Senate bid); Am-
bassador to the U.N.; Chairman of
the Republican National Com-

Jack Kemp

George Bush

Kemp, a seven-term Con-
gressman from Buffalo, New York
and a former professional quar-
terback, has mainly made his
mark in the Congress and the
public with his economic and tax
activities. But throughout his
career and particularly since he
became ranking Republican on
the vital Foreign Operations Sub-
committee of the House Appro-
priations Committee, Kemp has
been at the forefront of all pro-
Israel initiatives in the Congress,
Kemp helped lead the suc-

mittee; Liaison Officer (before we
had an official ambassador) to the
People's Republic of China; and
Director of the CIA.

cessful fight in the House in 1981
to disapprove the sale of advanced
AWACs aircraft to Saudi Arabia
and two years later it was the
Kemp-Long Amendment which
authorized funds for the building
of the Levi aircraft in Israel,
Behind the scenes in his Sub-
committee he has been instru-
mental in gaining increases in aid
levels for Israel on increnoinglY
better terms. When some of i s-

rael's fair-weather friends ducked
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From Kemp Election?

bombing and Israel's invasion of
Lebanon —Kemp spoke out

strongly in support,
But what really makes Kemp
such an unusually strong suppor-

ter of the Jewish state is his
enthusiasm for Israelis as a
people, and his consistent Wye-
Racy of Israel as a strategic asset
to the UnItol States when speak-
ing before non-Jewish groups,
A frequent visitor to Israel,
Kemp has an #opanding circle of
Wog Mx* to match his AVIV
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While no notable accom-
plishments have been associated
with any of these positions — it is
fair to say neither were there any
major gaffes or negatives associ-
ated with them — nor any par-
ticular Middle Bast significance.

Since becoming vice president,
however, a number of unfriendly
acts toward Israel have been re-
ported, In his memoirs, former

Secretary of State Alexander
Haig relates how Bush persuaded
President Reagan to vote in the
United Nations to condemn Is-
rael's move into Lebanon.
Last year, New York Times'
conservative columnist William
Satire, himself a long-time sup-
porter of Israel, maintained that
after Israel's bombing of the Iraqi
nuclear reactor, Bush "led the
charge to punish Israel by with-
holding shipments of ,promised
aircraft," and that Bush has been
A strong voice In urging the
President to trust the "moderato"
Arabs.
More roma), during the Be-
irut hijacking his, Bush went
further than any Administration
opekesman in equating Israel's
detention of Lebanese Millie ter-
rorists with the hijacking when he
stated "pools hold ogolnot inter.
1100141 JAW should he released,"
and that UM, policy was "to wel-
come the release of _people ill r
ally held hostage &m y, on the
Paw hand, maintained that Jo-
raaraxtiono wore not contrary to
international law,