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Yitzhak Shamir and Ronald Reagan say goodbye after Shamir's February
visit to Washington.
Jewish Loyalties And Politics
Republican View
Democratic Rebuttal
MAX M. FISHER
ROBERT NAFTALY
ne senses a certain smugness in
reading the nation's Jewish
> press and speaking with some
of the pro-Israel community's leaders.
For six years, President Reagan,
assisted by a GOP Senate, had sought to
institutionalize the alliance between the
United States and Israel. During this
period, aid to Israel increased from $1.5
billion to $4.5 billion and was converted
from a combination of grants and loans
to all grants. The Administration also
formalized bilateral strategic
cooperation and established a free-trade
area between the two countries.
For many Jews, this unprecedented
friendship and commitment was
perplexing. The Administration's efforts
on Israel's behalf challenged what had
been an axiom of Jewish political
thinking: that Democrats alone could be
\, trusted to protect Jewish interests,
particularly with regard to Israel.
For some Jews, this challenge led to
a reassessment of their traditional loy-
alty to the Democratic Party. But others
responded differently. For them, the
Democrats' past preeminence in support
for Israel reinforced political biases and
provided a strong argument for keeping
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Jews loyal to the Democratic Party. Mr.
Reagan, widely recognized as "the best
friend Israel ever had in the White
= House," denied them this argument.
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he 1984 Presidential election
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those of us who proudly call our-
selves Democrats. Our party's nominee,
Walter Mondale, carried only one state
(his home state of Minnesota) and Wash-
ington, D.C. The Republican nominee,
Ronald Reagan, carried the other 49
states. He also carried virtually every
voter category — men, women, Protes-
tants, Catholics, Italian-Americans,
Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans. The
list goes on and on.
But there were a few groups that
Reagan did not win. Blacks and His-
panics rejected Reagan by a wide plural-
ity. So did the very poor. And there was
one other category of Americans who
said no to President Reagan: American
Jews. By a 70-30 percent margin, our
community supported Mondale.
This endorsement of the Democratic
Party by American Jews was a major
disappointment to Republicans who pre-
dicted that Jews — primarily middle
and upper middle class — would join
other well-off Americans in backing the
Republicans. They expected the Jewish
community to abandon the political
party that has been its home since the
1920s. They said that Jews had out-
grown their affiliation with the party
that has always championed working
people, the poor, the minority groups in
general. The election returns proved
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